Chinese refugees stream into the International Settlement

Title : Chinese refugees stream into the International Settlement

Topic : Virtual Shanghai

Year : 1937

Location : Shanghai

Date (start) : 1937

Nature : B&W Photo

Support image : Book

Caption on support : Japan's invasion of China. Chinese refugees stream into the International Settlement area of Shanghai in November 1937. Chiang kai-shek's Nationalist forces there have finally been defeated by the Japanese and are retreating inland towards Nanaking. The policeman can do little to impose order.

Information data : This picture was taken by George Krainukov (who later changed his name to Crane). This picture was reproduced from the following source: The Eye of the War. Words and Photographs from the Front Line, Washington D.C., Smithsonian Books, 2003.

Keywords : war;refugee;policeman;Sikh;gate