Funeral procession in a city square in Belgium during World War 1, circa 1918. Several horse drawn carriages with caskets pass by. Each coffin is separately escorted by Belgian soldiers in World War I uniforms and civilian men and women carrying flowers and wreaths. Belgian people gather to see parade on both sides of street.
Bootleg whiskey and liquor is brought up from an underground storage area via elevator and loaded onto a truck. A crowd watches along a city street as the liquor is loaded into the truck. Next scene shows the truck backed up to the edge of a lake or large body of water. Officials smash and break barrels and cans with spades and pick-axe to drain the illegal liquor. They smash beer bottles and empty barrels in the water. Final scene shows a group of men picking through the empty bins, bottles, and barrels, looking for leftover liquor. A man raises a bottle to his mouth to drain it. Another man finds a smashed can with some leftover liquor and he drains it into a jar.
Emperor (Kaiser) Karl I is enthusiastically greeted by the liberated population of Czernowitz, Capital of Bukowina (Bukovina or Buchenland) following the reconquest of the city by Austro-Hungarian forces during World War I. His car drives down the cobblestone main street, and citizens heap it with bouquets and throw flowers. The Kaiser stands and salutes the crowd. The Kaiser acknowledges the speech of the Burgomeister and receives more flowers from little girls. Then the Kaiser returns to his car and drives away to the continuing cheers of the crowd.
View of a fountain in front of the Berlin Cathedral. People stand in front of the City Palace of Berlin (the Stadtschloss Berliner, Schloßpl. 1, 10178 Berlin, Germany). An equestrian statue of a German emperor near the Berlin Cathedral or Unter den Linden. People walk on a road. People walk by sculptures besides the road. The National Gallery of Berlin (Alte Nationalgalerie, Bodestraße 1-3, 10178 Berlin, Germany). People walk on the sideways near the Nationalgalerie.
Fountains and statues in Berlin, Germany. People stand and view fountain Begasbrunnen in front of Stadtschloss (also called the City Palace, Berlin). People walk around Memorial of Otto von Bismarck in front of Reichstag. People watch and walk by fountain in garden. Women sit and talk on platforms in the garden.
Early historic aviation event: Air expedition from Moscow to Peking. The aircraft and aviators are welcomed in Mongolia and Peking. Russian fliers in pioneering flight from Moscow to Peking. They are welcomed in the sacred Mongol city of Urga, on their way to China, A Junkers commercial F.13 monoplane, of the expedition, taxis to left. Russian DH-4 support biplane , taxis to right. Officials pose in front of the DH-4. Pilot seen standing in rear cockpit in background. Mongolian red army band plays. A Mongolian giant seen standing in the crowd, with small children in front of him. Crowd of Mongolian people sits and watches the event. Idol bearers to bring good luck to the fliers. Mongolian lamas display small images of Buddha. Mongolian troubadour plays a morin khuur (two-stringed instrument). Four Mongolian children stand. Yurts in the background Mongolian women stand in full traditional dress. Mongolian men in stands with fancy hats with peak. Next sequence takes place in Peking, China, at the end of the 3,500 mile flight, where the aviators are feted with a reception. Crowd waves Chinese flags. One of the Junkers J.3 airplanes of the expedition taxis ahead. Russian crew steps from another Junkers J.3 of the expedition. Lev Mikhailovich Karakhan, Russian Ambassador to China, and Marshal Duan Qirui (AKA Tuan Ch'i-jui), Provisional Chief Executive of Republic of China, pose with five Russian aviators, on steps of Government house in Peking.
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