Forgotten groups: 140,000 Chinese laborers in World War I, Clinton visiting commissaries
author:w small murmurs
01. 1916, Usa. During World War I, in a cotton field outside Oklahoma, Harold Walker, a five-year-old child laborer, dragged a long denim bag to pick cotton. The farmer gave her the task of picking 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Otherwise there will be no food to eat at night, and you will even be beaten and sleep in the stables. This cotton picking doll is still barefoot, picking cotton herself but not mixed with a pair of cotton socks, it is really pitiful!
02. During the First World War, because men went to war, a large number of women in Britain participated in the war industry. After the end of World War I, most of the women at work were forced to lose these jobs.
03. 1920, Europe. Italian women dressed in avant-garde clothes on the streets after World War I. Judging from their clothing, they were women at the forefront of fashion in that era, and they should be dressed very fashionably at that time, after all, Italy is the fashion capital. But in our view today, we do not feel a trace of beauty. However, at that time, their skeleton was very tall and their bodies were very strong.
04. In 1960, Princess Brigitta and Princess Desilei of Sweden made a 10-day official visit to the United States, one of which was New York, to visit the newly built United Nations office building and the black tie dinner in the evening. Although neither of them is a great beauty, after sixty years, you can still see the thick and gorgeous fur and the classic satin puffed skirt through the screen, and feel the texture of the past.
05. Neville Chamberlain, american geologist and educator, who became president of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1887 and chair of the Geology Department at the University of Chicago in 1892.
As early as 1909, before the Xinhai Revolution, Chamberlain came to China with his son to make a visit to the East, of which the Yangtze River was the place where the father and son took the most photographs, and the Gukui Prefecture Capital, which has a history of more than 2,000 years, was only one of the stops filmed by the father and son. (Fengjie old photo)
06. In the photo, a man in military uniform, in his thirties, is tied to a wooden pole and is about to be executed. The man in the picture is tied up, with a small mustache, eyes looking ahead, his back pressed against a wooden pole, and his head and neck leaning forward slightly. An officer stood in front of him. His life may be frozen in today's day!
07. In 1917, Chinese workers went to France to participate in World War I, making great contributions to China's status as a victorious power after the war. The picture shows Chinese workers queuing up at the Chinese workers' camp to get vaccinated.
08. 1916, Europe. During World War I, American soldiers eating K-1 rations in the trenches, this ration pack contained the following contents: canned lunch meat, processed American cheese, bacon, canned Swiss cheese, crackers, 15 flavored glucose tablets, four sugars, four cigarettes, a box of matches, eight pieces of chewing gum, and three packs of lemon drink punches. By the end of World War II, the United States had produced millions of K-1 ration packets.
09. The previous rugby helmet test, body armor test, etc. are close to actual combat operations; aircraft bomb dropping in World War I is also worthy of the name; about a hundred years ago, Chinese in the United States once opened an opium hall, but also for smokers to prepare kang, very intimate service
10. 1912, United States. On the eve of World War I, due to the tight financial resources of the federal government, the investment in agriculture in the west was stagnant. In order to attract more foundations and people to support the western region, think tanks have come up with a crooked idea of "F exaggeration", and they have fabricated some extraordinary agricultural and fishery products in the press to attract investment. The "M production of ten thousand pounds" forced by the public is actually learned from the US imperialism when "touching the stone", which is also an inevitable process of social development.
11. According to statistics, Serbia lost 60% of its men in the First World War. It was a terrible number, and the war quickly devoured a large number of young adults, forcing women and children to the battlefield. The photo was taken in 1916 as a soldier of the 3rd Regiment of the Serbian Vadar Division, who had just turned ten years old!
12. Kaiser Wilhelm II declared war on England in Berlin
13. The German Concession in Tianjin was relatively short, and the German Concession in World War I was repossessed by China. This was the telegraph office or telephone station set up by the early Germans in Yiyuan, Zhejiang Province, on the west side of the concession (now the Qiandezhuang area of Guangdong Road). Zhejiang Yiyuan is a charitable organization of Zhejiang natives in Tianjin, specializing in settling Zhejiang people in tianjin, or burying or putting them in coffins and assisting in sending them back to Zhejiang.......
14. During the First World War, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria jointly launched an attack on Serbia, and the Serbian army was forced to retreat to Montenegro and Albania. Pictured, in November 1915, several Bulgarian officers salute the Germans marching in Serbia!
15. World War I Messenger Pigeon Bus.
16. September 1914, France. During World War I, on the outskirts of Paris, on the marne battlefield, soldiers and donkeys wearing gas masks. At this time, the German army was defeated and forced to retreat to the anne river area, which gave the Anglo-French army a chance to breathe. They took the opportunity to move north and build fortifications along the Ypres Canal in the Kingdom of Belgium, ready to fight the Germans to the death at any time. The defeated German Emperor angrily sacrificed the great killing weapon "Mustard Gas Bomb"
17. An old photograph of the First World War, above a battalion in Cameron Heights, taken before being sent to the front line;
18. Chinese laborers during the war
19. In 1919, a soldier returning from the battlefield of World War I.
20. July 2, 1998, Guangxi. When US President Clinton visited China, one of the stops was to see the world-famous "Guilin Landscape" in Yangshuo County, Guilin, Guangxi. When his boat descended the Li River to the small fishing village in Xingping Town, Xiao Ke wanted to walk around the village. After he entered the commissary of Deng Xingming in the village, he immediately became interested in seeing the abacus. Deng Xingming improvised to show him the 999*999 operation. After the calculation, Xiao Ke directly extended his thumb