French infantrymen rush to defend a Belgian town during World War I. French soldiers advance towards the front to defend the town against the German attack. Buildings along a side of a street. Soldiers fire rifles hiding behind barricades.
German soldiers rest in East Prussia during World War I. Houses in the area. Soldiers wash clothes and hang them on a wall surrounding a statue. A soldier plays piano. Other soldiers stand nearby and listen to the music.
German military evacuate refugees from areas of Western front subject to heary French bombardment, during World War 1. German soldiers give refugees food and drink and help then into wagons with their belongings. The wagons move on a street. Houses in the background.
A unit of German horse cavalry (lancers) equipped with M1893 lances, moving along a dirt road in France, during World War 1. (WWI; WW1)
People at a German train station examine railroad torn up and twisted, apparently by an explosion (possibly sabotage?), during World War 1. Damage is confined to the railroad, itself, and a train that has been blown over,on its side, nearby . (The station and buildings are undamaged.) Curious onlookers stand around the damaged tracks and many stand on an embankment overlooking the overturned train. Workmen examine the damage to the train. Several policemen appear busy at the road entrance to the train station. One has a bicycle.
Opening slate says "How the Russian troops are turning the Turkish flank." World War 1 footage shows Russian forces on a snowy plain in the Caucasus Mountains region between Europe and Asia. The Russian troops march in the snow and mud in a column and through snow covered areas. Turkish prisoners of war are seen in a town town and marching along a path in the snow. Armed Russian soldiers are seen near the prisoners. Russian troops place supplies in a snow sled. They are seen transporting soldiers and supplies in ox carts and sledge drawn by cattle. Bactrian camels that are able to withstand the extreme cold are seen transporting gear. The Russian forces move a herd of camels through a village and up a steep mountain road.