Soldiers who have held Vera Cruz since its occupation by the Navy are recalled by President Wilson. They disembark from the transports at Galveston, Tex., and prepare winter quarters. Diplomats of various American nations assemble at Pan-American mass, Washington, D.C. and join in prayer for universal peace. Cardinal Gibbons participates. Bengal Lancers brought from British India to fight with allies camp in South East London. In spite of cold they cheerfully burnish sabers to be ready to fight. St. Andrew One Cent Coffee Stands Association, New York, helps spread holiday cheer by giving baskets filled with good things to eat to many needy who apply at New York headquarters. Army football team smothers Annapolis Middies under 20 to score at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, while the stands are crowded by 33,000 spectators. Steamer Hanalei, driven by gale, dashes on Duxbury Reef, 9 miles from Golden Gate and San Francisco harbor. Nineteen persons perish and 44 are saved. Life savers are rushed from San Francisco in a motor truck and begin a long fight to save the wreck victims. The Hearst-Selig operator was on the ground at daylight and made a series of remarkable pictures of the wreck, showing the victims struggling in the water, the signal fires along the beach, the wreckage driven up by the pounding sun and life savers taking the last two survivors off a bit of wreckage to which they had clung after the vessel was broken to pieces.
—Moving Picture World synopsis