CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Exiled to Siberia | [ 1] |
| II. | The Secret “Getaway” | [ 5] |
| III. | Japan to Vladivostok | [ 16] |
| IV. | Toward Khabarovsk | [ 27] |
| V. | Bolshevists and Baths | [ 37] |
| VI. | Hetman of the Ussuri | [ 48] |
| VII. | From Khabarovsk to Ushumun | [ 64] |
| VIII. | On the Back Trail | [ 82] |
| IX. | A Red Sweater and the General | [ 93] |
| X. | Over the Amur River on Horseback | [ 104] |
| XI. | The Machine that Squeaked | [ 114] |
| XII. | An Army Impresario | [ 121] |
| XIII. | Away to Trans-Baikal | [ 130] |
| XIV. | The City of Convicts | [ 150] |
| XV. | Ataman Semenoff | [ 158] |
| XVI. | Famine in Chita | [ 165] |
| XVII. | New Year with the Japanese | [ 172] |
| XVIII. | Diplomacy and—Mice | [ 186] |
| XIX. | New Friends, Prisons, and Other Things | [ 196] |
| XX. | The Sobrania | [ 206] |
| XXI. | Politics and Prinkipo | [ 227] |
| XXII. | Farewell to Chita | [ 237] |
| XXIII. | Chita to Vladivostok | [ 247] |
| XXIV. | The Peasants | [ 258] |
| XXV. | Frenzied Finance | [ 280] |
| XXVI. | Leaves from My Note Book | [ 293] |
| XXVII. | The Joker in Bolshevism | [ 305] |
| XXVIII. | The United States in Asia | [ 316] |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| FACING PAGE | |
| Siberian Types—When They Smile Less and Think More They Will Find Freedom | [ Frontispiece] |
| The American Army Mules Arrive in Vladivostok for Duty | [ 24] |
| Street Service in Vladivostok with Bay in Distance | [ 24] |
| An American Doughboy Helping Make Siberia “Safe for Democracy” | [ 48] |
| Night View of Vladivostok Harbor from Hill of City | [ 48] |
| Russian Soldiers Clearing the Track After a Wreck on the Trans-Siberian | [ 100] |
| Japanese Officers Talking with an American Officer | [ 100] |
| Ataman Semenoff, Chief of the Trans-Baikal Cossacks | [ 158] |
| Mongol and Tartar Descendants of Conquering Hordes with 1919 Model “Cars” | [ 158] |
| Siberians Celebrating the Signing of the Armistice | [ 200] |
| Room in House at Ekaterinburg where Czar and His Family are Reputed to Have Been Executed | [ 200] |
| An Example of Carving on a Typical Siberian House | [ 230] |
| Typical Russian Church in Cities of Siberia | [ 230] |
| Some American Railroad Men of the “Russian Railway Service” | [ 250] |
| Washing Clothes in Sixty-below-zero Weather | [ 250] |
SIBERIA TO-DAY
I
EXILED TO SIBERIA
“Let me see your palm!”
A smiling major thus accosted me in the offices of the Military Intelligence Division of the General Staff of the army in Washington the latter part of July, 1918.
The weather was hot as Billy-be Hanged—hotter than I had ever known it in the Philippines, or so it seemed. It was hotter than the roadstead of Singapore, hotter than the mud-baked streets of Suez City, hotter than Malacca Strait.
In former times of tropical soldiering, I had seen commanding generals working in their undershirts. But a new discipline pervaded our new army, and we were imitating the Prussian system, and doing our best to look and work as secretly as possible in uniform coats with high stiff collars. We realized that the more uncomfortable we might feel, the quicker the war would be won in France.