Some Occidental-looking men in military uniform, bearing a Japanese flag, climb a hill and are shot down by men at the top of the hill.
This deadly version of King of the Mountain is one of about twenty movies shot by Pathe about this time. Under the direction of Lucien Nonguet, they purported to show battles in the Russ-Japanese War, and the vile efforts by anarchists to blow up people like Grand Duke Sergei.
I suspect deliberate collusion on the part of Charles Pathe's company. France was the largest film-making company in the world, and Pathe and Gaumont were fighting it out for top dog. Russia was a large market, and there's little to gain the favor of the people who can make decisions to let your product into the country like product that's sympathetic to them. It worked, too.