CONTENTS

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IFrom War to Peace in Manchuria—Peking—A New Assignment, “Russia Direct”—Shanghai[ 1]
IIThe Race for the Situation—Ceylon—Across India—Stalled in Bombay—Russia via the Suez Canal[20]
IIIConstantinople at Last! The Threshold of the Russian Assignment—A Nation in Convulsion[35]
IVWe 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]
VWe sail out into the Black Sea in the Salvage Steamer “France” and for Sixty-five Hours Shake Dice with Death[73]
VIWe 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]
VIIThe 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]
VIIIWe 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]
IXWe Reach Sevastopol and Land in Spite of Harbor Regulations, Get a “Story” and Sail away with it to the Coast of Asia Minor[150]
XWe Send our Cable from Sinope and then Sail for the Caucasus where Rumor States Revolution and Anarchy to be Reigning Unmolested[167]
XIChristmas Morning on the Black Sea[180]
XIIWe Find Turmoil in the Caucasus but Celebrate Xmas in Spite of Storm and Stress[190]
XIIIWe Sail away from Batuum with a Beat, Official Dispatches, Foreign Mails and a Boat Load of Refugees that Keep Us Awake Nights[200]
XIVThe Return to the Golden Horn and the End of the Assignment[217]