Soon after World War 1, a tugboat leads two ships through narrow open water channel in frozen Russian bay. Buildings and trees in the far background. View of area covered with snow. Children wearing warm clothes stand in front of ship on which is written: 'Margus Newark USA'. An American flag flutters on the flag pole of the ship. The children pose for photograph. A cinematographer hand cranks his movie camera on a city street. Other men stand with him. Buildings along the sides of snow covered street.
Refugees at Irkutsk railroad station. People pass on by the railway platform. Policemen standing on the railway platform. Military funeral. Horse carts passing on by the street.
Russian citizens using horse-carts in commerce. Soviet women waiting in line for food. Russian soldier walking past the line. Child running. Street scene.
Japanese troops in Vladivostok, during Russian Civil War and World War 1. Opening scene shows Japanese soldiers in a bayonet sparring exercise using wooden rifles and Samurai style protective gear. They engage each other in pairs. Next scene shows Japanese soldiers in front of railroad cars serving as their housing. Some of them are cooking food. View along the rail platform where many Japanese soldiers are walking about. A Japanese soldier is seen inside on of the boxcars, smoking a cigar. Several others are seen inside their boxcar home, where they have a stove to heat it. A soldier stands guard atop war material stacked in low open rail cars. Views of vast rail yards filled with train loads of supplies of all kinds. Smoke issuing from steam locomotives in the distance. Another view of boxcars used as "barracks" for troops. Camera pans over the rail yards.
Czech Legion troops in Vladivostok Siberia, during Russian Civil War and World War I. Opening scene shows a damaged railroad boxcar tilted on its side at a rail yard. Its wheels are broken. Snow and scrap materials have been piled beside it (likely to keep it from collapsing). Czech Legion soldiers appear to be using it as shelter. Change of scene shows American and Czech soldiers at a headquarters where the entrance is flanked by the American and Czech flags. Two women are speaking with the soldiers at the gateway. Closeup of the two women posing with two Czech soldiers and several Americans. Closeup of four American soldiers posing with two Czech Legionnaires, (one all in furs). Czech soldiers offloading supplies from railroad freight cars. Closeup of large boxes labeled with red crosses. Czech military medics loading the Red Cross supplies and blankets onto horse drawn wagons. View from fast moving train of snowy landscape outside the window. white smoke and steam from locomotive (unseen) passes the window. View of a train moving through snow covered landscape.
Allied powers intervention in Siberia during World War I. Czech Legion soldiers assembled in front of a building in Vladivostok. They march past a city gate. Snow on the roads. They stand in formation, for inspection, with their officers in front.