WWI Newsreel Excerpts - Various

WWI Newsreel Excerpts - Various Italian Campaign - Field Kitchens - army cooks w/ tasselled hats - taste food. 15:58:14 ‘Ferdinand, Self Styled Tsar of the Bulgarians’ - Ferdinand arrives by train, greeted by officers. 15:58:54 ‘On the French Front. A Sudden Alarm’ - troops running with rifles - searching building. 15:59:47 ‘Home on Leave - Tommies direct from the trenches arrive in London for Christmas’. Troops leaving railway station. Soldier buying turkey from market stall 16:00:08 Army camp unid. location. Tents and horses. Turkish troops? Balkans ? 16:00:42 ‘Replacing the “Leon Gambetta” Launch of French Cruise Ship - ship down slipway. 16:01:31 ‘With the Italian Army - How Our Allies are Fighting in the Mountains’. Soldiers being lowered down mountain on a rope. Italian troops Bersaglieri ? w/ feathers on helmets practice rifle shooting - laying in grass and moving forward - group beating at barbed wire fences. 16.03:08 Procession in London to protest against sinking of Lusitania - marchers w/ banners “Union is Strength - The British Empire Union” - “Out With All Germans, Naturalised or Not”. Glass hearse carrying model of Lusitania 16:03:46 Moving big guns, towed by tractor. 16:04:09 ‘M. Venizelos, The Greek Patriot Receives enthusiastic welcome at Salonika’ - crowds on streets and surrounding car carrying Venizelos. Men strengthening trenches w/ wooden struts. 16:05:02 ‘Roumanian Refugees’ - fleeing from the Germans, refugees with carts and belongings. 16:05:34 ‘With the Russians in the Dobrudja’ - Russian encampment in forest. Russian troops take cover in trees - loading rifle. 16:07:02 ‘On The Czerna Reka. A Serbian regiment dig themselves in whilst awaiting the order to attack’. Troops in trenches, line of rifles against trench wall. 16:07:31 ‘With the Russian Army - Cossacks on a Scouting Expedition’ - troops on horseback down muddy road. 16:08:21 ‘The Battle of the Somme. The Capture of Curlu. The 75mm Barrage Fire prevented the German Reinforcements reaching ?’ Artillery firing - loading shells. French infantry troops run towards camera. Troops march through ruined village. 16:10:05 ‘The Arabic’s Lifeboats in Harbour’ - man tying up boats. 16:10:29 ‘Salonica - Generals Sir Charles Wilson and Mackenzie Kennedy Attend Military Gymkhana’ - Generals stand in group, one smoking cigar. Brief shot Chariot Race.