Russian citizens using horse-carts in commerce. Soviet women waiting in line for food. Russian soldier walking past the line. Child running. Street scene.
White Russian troops on parade in the cold in Siberia during Russian Civil War. Large numbers of troops, shouldering rifles with fixed bayonets, parade in formations on a snow covered field. A military band plays. A very large unit flag is seen containing the St. Andrew Cross and some type of Imperial insignia. A small contingent demonstrates bayonet use, as other troops stand back and observe.
Wounded Czech soldiers in Red Cross hospital at Tyumen, Siberia, (halfway between Ekateringburg and Omsk) during Russian Civil War intervention, and World War I. Patients lying in their beds. Red Cross staff start distributing packages to the patients. Uniformed personnel of the American Red Cross, pass out packages to the patients. Recovering ambulatory patients walk about posing for the camera. One playfully removes a pipe from mouth of another. Recovering soldiers from Czechoslovakia are seen playing chess. Doctors examining patients with severe cases of frostbite. (Note: The hospital was originally a private school and one of the most well built and equipped in Siberia. When asked about turning it into a hospital, the builder-owner, a Mr. Kolekolnickof, graciously consented. Physicians who served during startup of the hospital, included: Team head, Dr. Charles Lewis; Dr. J. H. Ingram; Dr. George Hayden; and Dr. R. V. Taylor)
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.