German prisoners of war on board a Russian destroyer in the Balkans. They walk on the ship deck. The crew of the merchantman are given packets of cigarettes by a Russian officer. A gun in the background.
A group of Cossacks march in the Balkans. A snow covered area. Houses and trees covered with snow in the background. Turkish prisoners of war march. The wounded prisoners are carried on horse-carts. Other prisoners walk in the snow covered area. They wear warm clothes.
Russian Emperor Nicholas arrives to inspect troops in Caucasus during World War 1. He wears a Cossack uniform. The troops stand in formation. Nicholas reviews the marching Cossack troops. He talks to an officer. The officers salute him. He stands on a platform with the officials. Slate indicates that the Tsar (Czar) was known by the Russian troops as "Little White Father." Emperor Nicholas II is seen mixing with the Russian soldiers, and leading a column of soldiers in descending a steep hill. (WWI; WW1)
A contingent of Russian Cossacks and Siberian troops are seen, in World War 1, after a 26-day march through mud and snow, and under fire. They trudge along in formation, 6 abreast, on a snowy mountain road, in the Caucasus. Houses are perched on the mountainside. Tall mountains are seen in background. (WWI; WW1)
Russian artillerymen shell a Turkish battery across a valley in the Caucasus during World War 1. View of gun crew loading a 155mm wheeled long gun, set up over a valley in the Caucasus. The principal gunner aims the gun and then the crew fires it. (WWI; WW1)
French armament men display a torpedo suspended by a sling from a hoist on a dock in World War 1. They rotate it around for the camera. A submarine is seen tied up to an adjacent dock in the background. The next scene shows the bubble wake of a compressed air driven torpedo seen from a boat tracking it as it moves through the water. Next sequence is taken from aboard a French submarine underway on the surface. A structure and point of land is seen. Then, officers and sailors are seen on the boat's deck. Scene then reverts to the torpedo on the dock, where closeup of its counter-rotating propellers are shown while being tested with a compressed air motor. Men show how the horizontal and vertical fins can be adjusted to control the path of the torpedo. An exploding cutter is shown, designed to penetrate defensive nets. A man screws the cutter into the nose of the torpedo. (WWI; WW1)