WWI - Rickenbacker, German Plane Crash; Wilson & Pershing; Middle East, Jerusalem, Allenby, Turkish

WWI - Rickenbacker, German Plane Crash; Wilson & Pershing; Middle East, Jerusalem, Allenby, Turkish Eddie Rickenbacker in cockpit of biplane, CU smiling. Plane from ground (brief). View of ground from air (brief). Under cranked (fast) soldiers running. 11:37:30 American soldiers guarding overturned biplane, soldiers looking. MS German (?) pilot sitting on ground. 11:37:41 Title w/o pix, black slug. 11:37:46 MCU President Wilson in top hat & fur coat w/ Gen. Pershing in uniform, laughing & talking. 11:38:06 Black slug. 11:38:10 Intertitle: “...Turkish dynamite makes work for the British Engineers.” Blown up brick bridge; horse & wagons, pack train, across temporary floating bridge. Wagons & horses up sandy bank & across desert. 11:39:08 Intertitle: “Two big guns are dragged forward through the sand.” Pulled by large tracked tractor w/ front wheel, men riding. 11:39:32 Intertitle: “Heat and sand is nothing new to this mounted machine gun battery of Indian troops.” Indians in turbans walking beside large pack train of horses passing camera. 11:40:07 Flash intertitle: “the Man who liberated Jerusalem, General Allenby, returns to Cairo where more troops are made ready for a desert campaign.” Line of military officers w/ Allenby formally shaking hands w/ Egyptian civilians on railroad platform. 11:40:24 Mounted on horse, others around, riding off w/ British pennant. Troops mounted sitting on sand waiting. 11:40:45 Intertitle: “In Bethlehem of Judea the streets ring w/ the tramp of men...” Arabs & others watching British troops marching out of Old City or along street. Troops marching in opposite direction. 11:41:22 Intertitle: “A strange scene...where a spy of the Sultan has fallen into British hands.” Troops sitting on ground by trench w/ machine guns, slow pan to man sitting on back of armored truck & arab (?) translator. 11:41:57 Intertitle: “At Cairo, fresh mounts...” no pix. 11:42:01 Intertitle: “Over the gleaming sands in the early hours...” LS riders in lines doing drill (?). 11:42:30 Troops riding through shallow water & up sandy shore past windmill. 11:42:44 Intertitle: “The Desert ‘Battleship’ - From captured city of Jerusalem, General Allenby’s fighters...” Riding thru very dry desert w/ eroded streambeds. 11:43:11 Flash Intertitle: “The retreating foe...destroyed a well.” Men inspecting wooden broken parts, pose beside jumbled stones. View down shaft. 11:43:25 Intertitle: “As the British press forward here, prisoners & supplies of war are taken...” Soldiers w/ rifles marching large group of prisoners (Turkish?) past. 11:43:53 British into house w/ rifles & debris stacked & laying outside. Pan over guns. Middle East; WW1 Heroes; Celebrities; 1917 - 1918 (?); Palestine;