chinese soldier firing a Maxim machine gun (shanghai 1932)

Machine gun 

chinese soldier of a warlord army equiped with a Sword and Spear (manchuria 1933)

Sword and Spear

Wherever there was fighting the Chinese women rallied to the way emergency services, evacuating women and children from villages in the battle area, organizing the transport and after-care of wounded, sewing and washing for front-line troops, and arranging entertainment and recreation.  In this photo, a member of the American Baptist Surgical Unit tends a soldier's wounds.