WAR PICTORIAL NEWS, NO. 158 [MAY 15] Part 1

Description

Part 1, Brit. Gen. Wavell visits Bombay Province, India: he chats with Indian officials, examines raw rubber, observes natives unloading logs from a truck, receives a sword, and watches Indian dances. Part 2, Indians cut, thresh, and refine sugar cane. Part 3, wheat is cut and then threshed by hand. Part 4, Wavell reviews Indian Army units in New Delhi; he decorates a war widow. Part 5 shows a Brit. bicycle race in Cairo. Part 6, Chinese refugees work in an Australian shipyard and eat with chopsticks. Part 7, Brit. carrier-based planes bomb the Ger. battleship Tirpitz and return to the carrier.

Collection

Records of the Office of War Information

Series

Motion Picture Films from "War Pictorial News" Newsreels