Manufacturing of Italian heavy artillery gun barrels during World War I. Barrels are turned on lathes and rifled. Interior of rifled barrel with spiral rifling shown. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Manufacturing of Italian munitions during World War I. Women work on machines as they manufacture shells at an ammunition plant. Men operate machines as shells remain piled up. Women perform machining operations and arrange shells in racks. Shells and powder charges weighed as women pack powder charges. Shells processed on a machine. Men wearing mask as they perform a phase of shell assembly. Shells inspected by men and prepared for shipment. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Manufacturing of Italian ammunition during World War I. A group of munitions workers pose for picture. They are mostly women and children but include some men. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
World War I Allies Conference meeting in Paris. Mr Baron Sonnino and Signor Salandra, representatives of Italy arrive in Paris. Photographers stand with a camera. Crowd waves to them. Mr Aristide Briand the French Prime Minister, General Joffre and Admiral Lagaze. Mr Briand comes out of a building and sits in a car. Dignitaries come out of the building. General Cadorna Italian Commander in Chief walks on the sideway. Mr M Denny Cochin gets off a car. M Pashitch, the Serbian Prime Minister and Lord Bertie, the British ambassador to France come out of a Building. Lord Kitchener comes out of building and stands. Crowd on the street.
German Cruiser intercepting munitions-carrying ships in Atlantic Ocean during World War 1. English steamer "Cambrian Range" bound from Baltimore to Liverpool, with cargo of munitions, is given signal to halt at once, by the German Cruiser, SMS Möwe (sometimes written as Moewe) in mid Atlantic, on December 9, 1916 . Some crew from the steamer are seen pulling away from the vessel in a lifeboat (to be held on the Möwe). In similar fashion, the Norwegian Steamer, "Hallbjorg" carrying munitions from New York to Bordeaux, is halted by a warning shot from the Möwe's machine-cannon on December 4, 1916. View of the Möwe's gun crew firing. German sailors row a boat to the Hallbjorg to take control of it. View of the crew from Hallbjorg being taken aboard the Möwe.
The German U-boat submarine, Deutschland, repaired after a 16 November, 1916 collision with the tugboat "T.A. Scott Jr.", leaves U.S. for Germany on 21 November, 1916. The launch "Efco" opens the pontoon fence guarding the submarine's berth, and the submarine slowly moves out of the dock area. She carries 6.5 tons of silver bullion on this successful British blockade-evading voyage back to Germany.
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