Diplomats arrive for the Paris Peace Conference at Chateau of Versailles in France. A dignitary gets out of a car and walks inside the building. One of the dignitaries poses for a photograph before entering the building.
American President Woodrow Wilson departs from Brest in France after signing the Treaty of Versailles. President Wilson descends from the stairway at dockyard to the pier, as he prepares to board the ship SS George Washington for his return trip to the United States. Officials gathered around him. Naval officers salute the President.
The Versailles Treaty is signed in Paris, France. The gate of the Palace of Versailles opens. Sculptures, columns and fountains in the palace. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando get off cars and enter the Palace of Versailles. All dignitaries sit in the Hall of Mirrors at the palace. President Wilson, Prime Minister Clemenceau, Prime Minister Lloyd George and Prime Minister Orlando pose after signing the treaty. Seals in the book of the treaty.
Fire in the The Wilson Square - Champ-de-Bataille Square municipal theatre (located in the Place Wilson) in Brest, France. The architect was Antoine Choquet de Lindu. People on the street outside the Theatre during the fire. French firemen and U.S. troops (immediately post World War 1) arrive in trucks to fight the theater fire. The fire fighters extend water hoses from the trucks and from manual pumps to the building. Men climb up ladders to the first floor of the building. Men standing on the balcony of the first floor holding the hoses. Broken windows of the ground floor in view. Men break windows on more doors. They position hoses and spray water from hoses through a window of the first floor. Firemen go up and down the ladder. A huge group of men outside the building operating a see-saw manual water pump. (The theater was completely destroyed and rebuilt in wood at the Place de la Liberté.)
Shows American 42nd Coast Artillery troops at Saint Nazaire (France) embarking transport vessel SS Kroonland for United States shortly following the end of World War 1 in Europe. Troops armed with their rifles and loaded with supplies aboard the ship. Troops swarm the ship's deck.
Shows American General Blakely aboard the transport ship, SS Kroonland at Saint Nazaire in France during World War I. American 42nd Coast Artillery troops have food on the deck. Boarding stairs are retracted. The ship prepares to leave for United States following Armistice and end of World War 1.