United States sailors save civilians from fire in Turkey. Sailors and civilians on boat stand past the ship. Sailors help the civilians get on to the ship through board. Scenes of buildings and mosques in the city. Sailors hold woman's hand to get on to the ship. People carry luggage and board on the ship. Scene of city Smyrna of Asia Minor under fire. United States sailors on ship play music and a civilian dances.
A train carrying Mustafa Kemal Atatürk arrives at a station in Turkey. Smoke arises from the train. Officers and officials assemble to greet Atatürk. Turkish national flags adorn the train station. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk steps down from the train and is greeted and escorted by the officials.
Political scenario in Europe prior to World War I. Sultan Mehmed V gets off a carriage in Turkey. Officials greet him. People look on as cavalry units move past.
Members, of the U.S. Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia, stand upon a bridge under construction over the Euphrates River, and watch Kurdish construction workers manually raising a heavy weight in a wooden pile driver at the river bank. Camera pans across the bridge.
U.S. destroyers carry Greek and Armenian refugees from Turkey to temporary refuge camp at Athens orphanage in Greece, during the period of the Greco-Turkish War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. Sailors carry a sick refugee on a stretcher. More refugees arrive on the ship. Refugees with belongings embark the ship.
Red Cross and League of Nation camps in Turkey as part of actions of the American Committee for Relief in the Near East (ACRNE), giving aid to Armenians, Greeks, and other refugees. Men pose with children. Signs of 'League of Nations Feeding Station' in background. Men and women walk along a muddy road. People arrive at a Red Cross camp. Tents set up in the camp. Oxen drawn carts loaded with supplies move towards a rail track. Supplies are unloaded at a feeding station. Men outside a Red Cross tent. All during period of the Greco-Turkish War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after WWI.