| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I | From War to Peace in Manchuria—Peking—A New Assignment,
“Russia Direct”—Shanghai | [ 1] |
| II | The Race for the Situation—Ceylon—Across
India—Stalled in Bombay—Russia via the Suez Canal | [20] |
| III | Constantinople at Last! The Threshold of the Russian
Assignment—A Nation in Convulsion | [35] |
| IV | We Charter a Tug and become Dispatch Bearers of His
Britannic Majesty and Learn of Winter Risks in the Black Sea too late to Retreat | [54] |
| V | We sail out into the Black Sea in the Salvage Steamer
“France” and for Sixty-five Hours Shake Dice with Death | [73] |
| VI | We Land in Odessa on the Day Set by the Revolutionists for a General Massacre,
but because of Effective Martial Law Secure only a “General Situation” Story | [94] |
| VII | The France does her Best in the Run for the
Uncensored Cable, Sticks in the Mud, but Gets Away and
Arrives at Sulina Mouth with an Hour to Spare | [113] |
| VIII | We Send our Cable and Find Ourselves with 5 Francs
and Expenses of $200 a Day, but Make a Financial Coup
d’Etat, and Sail for the Crimean Peninsula | [134] |
| IX | We Reach Sevastopol and Land in Spite of Harbor Regulations,
Get a “Story” and Sail away with it to the Coast of Asia Minor | [150] |
| X | We Send our Cable from Sinope and then Sail for the Caucasus
where Rumor States Revolution and Anarchy to be Reigning Unmolested | [167] |
| XI | Christmas Morning on the Black Sea | [180] |
| XII | We Find Turmoil in the Caucasus but Celebrate Xmas in
Spite of Storm and Stress | [190] |
| XIII | We Sail away from Batuum with a Beat, Official Dispatches,
Foreign Mails and a Boat Load of Refugees that Keep Us Awake Nights | [200] |
| XIV | The Return to the Golden Horn and the End of the Assignment | [217] |