A Serbian colonel receives dispatch from soldier on horseback in Serbia during the Second Balkan War. Soldiers install heliograph signal tower. Soldiers employ heliography to send and receive messages.
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, steps into a flag-and bunting-decorated open car. President-elect, Woodrow Wilson follows, waving his top hat, as he sits beside her. Next, outgoing President, William Howard Taft and First lady, Helen Herron Taft, enter the car and sit in front of the Wilsons. Short montage of buildings and houses. A Federal building in Washington, DC. What appears to be a hotel, with arabic writing on it. A neighborhood street. A politician smoking a cigar. A huge cast cement flower pot seen on lawn of the house behind him.
Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and King Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro. Horse-drawn carriage awaits outside a building in Vienna. Emperor Franz Joseph and King Nikola climb into the carriage and are covered with carriage robes by attendants. Officers salute the kings.
Attendants spread a cover across a balcony above the main entrance of the Quirinal Palace (Palazzo del Quirinale) in Rome, Italy, during World War 1. Then, King Peter I, of Serbia, King Victor Emmanuel III, of Italy and his Queen (Elena of Montenegro) appear on the balcony. A huge crowd of people cheer them from the plaza below (Piazza del Quirinale),
Inter Allied games at Pershing Stadium in Paris, France. J.G. Pipal along with Fred Kelly as they train athletes for a hurdle race. Various track events take place where athletes from Allied countries compete. 1500 meter relay race and a medley relay race. Athletes line up as King Nicholas I of Montenegro decorates them. A baseball game underway between the teams from the United States and Canada.
1912, Balkans: The Balkan War . Troops marching. Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria called the 'Fox of the Balkans'. Generals look at a map. Prisoners standing in a group. Men walk in lines on a path. Soldiers in coats with rifles. Montenegro: King Nicholas I surrounded by military and other officials. A man helps the King put on his coat. Italy: The King and Queen with dignitaries at a ceremony to launch battleships. Spain: The young King Alfonso XIII surrounded by military officials. Germany: German troops march on the streets. Soldiers on horses during a parade. Kaiser William II inspects troops. The crown Prince is greeted by the people of Germany.