Plot

Spontaneous Response to President's Proclamation: The Manhood and Womanhood of the United States and our possessions is united in determination to flay the enemy. From all points of the compass come reports of preparedness. Naval Militia is Called: Detachment quits headquarters aboard training ship and leaves on secret mission, New York City. Subtitles: Marching down Fifth Avenue. 47th New York Infantry leaves for duty "Somewhere in New York." Joan of Arc Stirs Mid-West: Society girl, posing as the immortal liberator, helps recruiting officers to enthuse youth, Chicago, Ill. Coast Patriotic Fires Kindled: Great patriotic parade results in hundreds applying for enlistment in the Army and Navy, Los Angeles, Cal. Subtitle: Governor Stephens, of California, leading. Recruits Swamp Officers: Response to call so heavy that tents are required to shelter embryo sailors, Lake Bluff, Ill. Dixie Shares the Burden: Georgians are primed to join with their compatriots in war, Savannah, Ga. Subtitle: Decorations for the brave. Our Gunners to Man Seized Ships: U.S. torpedo boat destroyers reach Florida with marksmen assigned from Navy, Key West, Fla. Filipinos Doing Their "Bit:" Sailors who are natives of our insular possession reach California en route to League Island Navy Yard, Los Angeles, Cal. Repelling the Enemy: Recruits at Chicago successfully defend their home station from attacking marines in mimic war, Chicago, Ill. Subtitles: Coast guard patrolling shore lines. Marines advancing in cutters. Laud forces preparing defense. The enemy repulsed. America's Battlefield: New York "Yankees," schooled in military tactics, open baseball season with the World Champion Boston "Red Sox," New York City. Subtitles: Soldiers all. Without peers as hand grenade throwers. Bayonet exercise with bats. Gen. Leonard Wood reviews them. He tosses out first ball. The game is on. San Francisco ushers in season. Mayor Rolfe, pitcher. Knocked Silly: Doped with laughing gas, students celebrate football victory in unique manner, Occidental, Cal. Subtitle: Just can't help being foolish. British Warship in U.S. Port: Cruiser "Leviathan" is first Allied fighting craft to visit this country since war began, Hampton Roads, Va. Teuton Sailors Are Interned: German and Austrian crews of merchantmen seized by United States are sent to Deer Island, Boston, Mass. Yale Oarsmen Lead Pennsylvania: Old Eli shows way to Quaker rivals in season's first boat races, Philadelphia, Pa. Subtitle: Yale, in background, a length in van. Greatest Air Battle in History: Hundreds of airplanes engage in deadly combat among clouds on Western front in European war. Stores of Allied and German birdmen are downed in the conflict. Subtitles: A hostile dirigible off on raiding tour. Scouting planes seek the enemy. Attacking from vantage point above dirigible. The destroyed aircraft. Zeppelin Destroyed by French: German air raider tries to attack Paris on return from cruise over England, and is destroyed 30 miles outside French Capital, Compiegne, France, March 17, 1917 (French Official War Pictures): Subtitles: The death machine, now debris, fell on garden wall. The mass of twisted steel and aluminum. All the crew were killed. Remains of the machinery. Cartoons by Hy Mayer.