Paris, France: General Cousin decorates soldiers' widows with honors gained by their husbands at Verdun. Bois le Pretere, France: A giant forest tree is used as an observation post to obtain information of enemy movements. Subtitles: What a communication trench looks like. Making a barbed wire entanglement. The trench mortars are fired by slow-burning fuses on account of their powerful "kick." Saint Cloud, France: Boys of the class of 1917, called to the colors, march off to the battlefront to fill the gaps in the invincible line of heroes fighting for their country. Subtitle: They have their own artillery corps. Greenwood, S.D: One hundred and sixty Sioux Indians, who are admitted to U.S. citizenship, receive patents of land from the government in observance of American Indian Day. Subtitles: Secretary of the Interior, Franklin K. Lane, administers the oath of allegiance to the new citizens. The squaws also receive the blessings of the nation. The chieftains are present in their full war costumes, which they don for the last time. Phoenix, Arizona: Four companies of the National Guard, called out at the request of President Wilson, leave for the border to aid the regulars in protecting the Mexican frontier. Somewhere in Mexico: Led by Mexican guides, little squads of American troopers continue the vain trail over the rocky mountain passes which Villa haunts. Marathon, Texas: Uncle Sam's Cavalrymen "tune up" for their work in avenging the murder of their comrades by Mexican bandits at Glen Springs.
—Moving Picture World synopsis