United States Revenue Cutter captures crew of 10 British rum runners in New York during Prohibition. Captured boat seized by Coast Guard escort boat arriving dockside at barge office. Coast Guard personnel in uniform on the captured boat. Crowd around the barge office watches the confiscation. The seize includes rum-original Sheriff's Malt and bags of William Penn, worth $200,000. Workers slide the rum barrels on a plank to the barge office from the boat. They lift bags to the dockside.
Gordons or soldiers of British Army Infantry preparing wire fence during Battle of Arras in World War I. Gordons pull out a stack of barbed wires and unroll it horizontally on ground. The wire is tied to a thick wooden stick at one end. Horses pull a 6-inch gun. Soldiers pull ropes to position 6-inch gun.
Canadian 60-pounder gun is loaded and fired during Battle of Arras in World War I. A soldier writes on a pad near the firing gun. Smoke arises at distance as gun is fired. Australian troops fire a howitzer. A Mark I tank moves over a shell hole. Soldiers load and fire 6-inch gun. A British gun crew, stripped to the waist, fire an 18 pounder field gun.
Territorial Brigade of Royal Field Artillery advances during World War I. British soldiers march and horse carts loaded with supplies move with them. Soldiers pack shells in ammunition column. A howitzer continuously fired at Germans in field.
Several British submarines on the surface nest to a tender, near a steel railroad bridge in the United Kingdom, during World War 1.. On one submarine, smoke stacks are rotated down to nest inside the deck and their openings sealed with hatches.The boat then submerges.in the water. It later surfaces, raises its smoke stacks and proceeds on the surface with smoke billowing from its stacks. Officers assemble on deck in front of a smoke stack with 'K6' stenciled on it. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Women and children receive food aid from French military. Children and women wait in queues to receive provisions. World War 1 French officer throws coins to children who gather around him. Soldiers play with little boy, who wears fez hat and stands like a soldier at attention. Clip closes with unrelated footage of British soldiers climbing out of trenches and viewing battlefield after armistice.
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