Newspaper headline declares Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Countess Sophie's assassination by a Bosnian youth in Sarajevo. The Archduke's bullet ridden uniform. The caskets carrying the bodies of the Archduke and his wife are taken to Vienna. The caskets wrapped in the Austrian flag at the port. Officers and soldiers salute in their honor. Priests lead the funeral procession followed by the caskets brought in horse carriages. Various New York newspaper headlines depicting beginning of World War I: Austria declares war on Serbia, Russia mobilizes against Austria, Germany declares war on Russia, France and England declare war on the Central Powers. Berlin: A large crowd gathered on the streets of Berlin. Mobilized German troops and band march on the streets. Crowd greets the German soldiers.
Four motor cars arriving at an army tent camp in Serbia, during Second Balkan war in 1913. Prince Alexander I of Serbia with Army officers in a motor car. Prince and officers discuss a map, sitting at a table.
Crown Prince of Serbia welcomes French General Pau at a ship in Serbia. They shake hands. They talk amongst themselves. General Pau meets officials on a railway station in Bucharest. He salutes the officials. People gather at a stadium to welcome him. World War 1 Romanian soldiers with guns walk at the stadium.
Conflict in Yugoslavia during World War II. Officials of Axis Powers confer, including German officers and Ante Pavelic, head of the Nazi puppet government of Croatia. Milan Nedic, prime minister of Nazi puppet Serbia, is the center of attention on several occasions. Soldiers lined up. A pistol, knife and a hand grenade arranged on a table cloth. Italian soldier throws hand grenade. Smoke rises from a street in Yugoslavia. Corpse lying on ground. Nazi-backed Prime Minister of Serbia, Milan Nedic, shakes hands with German officers. German soldiers seek cover from partisan resistance artillery. Yugoslav partisans, on hill, fire machine guns at Axis trucks moving along a road below them. Occupants abandon the vehicles and jump into ditches at side of road. Partisans organize with primitive weapons and head into hills. Partisan women kiss their homes goodbye and evacuate with their families into the hills. Yugoslav partisans climb into highlands carrying small arms. A German armored train moves along a rail line, firing heavy machine guns at partisans, who wait in hills, ready to detonate explosives. They destroy bridge as train crosses. View of destroyed locomotive.
A Serbian colonel receives dispatch from soldier on horseback in Serbia during the Second Balkan War. Soldiers install heliograph signal tower. Soldiers employ heliography to send and receive messages.
Title slate notes that ferrets are being sent to the World War I front lines to clear the trenches of rats. A man holds two white ferrets in Serbia. He puts a ferret on top of a shipping crate and plays with it using his hat. He then gathers several white ferrets and begins putting them into their shipping container. End of clip shows very brief scene of canoes in water and a game or contest with a large floating ball in the background, at a fair or competition. American flag bunting strung across water and large wooden roller coaster in background.