The U.S. Army cross-continental motor transport convoy stops in a barren part of Utah, while soldiers cut sagebrush to lay over a sandy area so trucks can gain traction and pass through the area. Soldiers help as a truck drives slowly over the sagebrush. The truck accelerates when leaving the sandy stretch. Other trucks moving through the area, are chained together for mutual assistance. Dust raised by passage of trucks.
Trucks of the U.S. Army cross-continental motor transport convoy entering the Great Salt Lake Desert of Utah, near Granite Peak. They proceed smoothly across the desert and park to prepare a meal. View of the parked vehicles. Soldiers preparing meals on mobile field kitchens. Smoke rising from stovepipe of a field kitchen.
View from a spot well ahead of the U.S. Army cross-continental motor transport convoy as it passes through Nevada. Trucks are seen raising dust as they approach on dirt road. Mountains in background. View from a hillside of trucks underway. View of trucks, far off, raising dust as they drive toward the camera. Mountains in background. Holt (Maxwell) tractor pulling a pair of trucks through an area of wet sand. A truck making way on its own. The Holt tractor pulling another pair of trucks, chained together. Soldiers helping by pushing.
Opening slate states: "The Railroad Strike, Scenes at the London Terminal and at the overcrowded bus and tram routes." People are seen walking about in a London train station after World War 1. Baggage is piled up on one section of a platform. Army officers climb onto an open car filled with luggage, and wave as they drive away. A large queue of people is seen at a bus station, where double decked buses are loading and discharging passengers. Women board a horse-drawn wagon as an alternate way of traveling. Back at the train station, Army officers help a woman from a car and then climb aboard it themselves with their luggage. A family sits atop a flat railway cart with luggage underneath. More views of too many people trying to get on too few buses. Scene shifts to Piccadilly Circus where pedestrians walk near the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain and the Criterion Theater.
Group of United States military officers. Colonel Edward Mandell House, American diplomat and politician, sharing information. Georges Benjamin Clemenceau, Prime minister of France and Ferninand Foch, Marshal of France leaving a building in Paris. View of Hotel Elysees Palace and Hotel Crillon (6 Pl. de la Concorde, 75008 Paris, France). Arrival and departure of guests at Hotel Crillon. Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of U.S. Naval Operations and Henry white, a prominent U.S. diplomat leaving Hotel Crillon.
Events during the Paris Peace Conference. Secretary of United States Navy, Josephus Daniels and Chief of the U.S. Naval Staff,Admiral William S. Benson arriving at Quai d' Orsay. Other delegates including Prime Minister of Greece Eleftherios Venizelos, President of The Republic of China,Dr. Vi Kyuin Wellington Koo can also be seen arriving.
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