United States punitive expedition against Pancho Villa in Mexico. United States Army Soldiers stand at a railroad station. Men being searched by the soldiers. Houses in the background. A cart on a street. Buildings along the sides of the street. Mexican people walking. Graffiti on the wall in background. A horse-cart loaded with luggage passes on the street. A poster reads: 'Potter Floral Co'.
Birds being set free in Mexico. Children with cages on a street. Birds inside the cages. Children set the birds free so as to greet all the nations of North and South America. Children hold birds in their hands and set them free. A young girl kisses a bird and sets it free.
Rebel General Benavides (incorrectly spelled Benevitas in the slate) and Chief of Rebel Army at Juarez, Mexico. Rebel troops aboard and on top of moving railroad train bound for battle at Tierra Blanco. Mexican Rebel leader Pancho Villa talks to another rebel leader, standing beside rail cars.
A guard of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service Border Patrol keeps a vigilant watch from near a border marker stone at the USA-Mexico international border, at Tijuana. The headquarters of the services. Officers move to a car to perform their routine patrols.
A newsreel titled 'Ancient Indian tribes acclaim President at historic dance rites' shows men and women of ancient Indian tribes dressed in their traditional attire and fancy head gears in Oaxaca Mexico. They perform a historic dance ritual as President General Abelardo L. Rodriguez and his wife enjoy the performance.
Hurricane Janet hits Tampico, Mexico. Mexican men unload C rations boxes from a helicopter. People grouped around United States Navy HUP 2 helicopters. People stand against a truck as they wave. People loaded on a truck in the background. A flooded village with submerged houses. A partly flooded roadway. Cows and horses stranded on a patch of high ground. Stacks of inundated small factories protrude from the water.