CONTENTS
From War to Peace in Manchuria—Peking—A New Assignment, “Russia Direct”—Shanghai
The Race for the Situation—Ceylon—Across India—Stalled in Bombay—Russia via the Suez Canal
Constantinople at Last! The Threshold of the Russian Assignment—A Nation in Convulsion
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
We sail out into the Black Sea in the Salvage Steamer “France” and for Sixty-five Hours Shake Dice with Death
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
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
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
We Reach Sevastopol and Land in Spite of Harbor Regulations, Get a “Story” and Sail away with it to the Coast of Asia Minor
We Send our Cable from Sinope and then Sail for the Caucasus where Rumor States Revolution and Anarchy to be Reigning Unmolested
Christmas Morning on the Black Sea
We Find Turmoil in the Caucasus but Celebrate Xmas in Spite of Storm and Stress
We Sail away from Batuum with a Beat, Official Dispatches, Foreign Mails and a Boat Load of Refugees that Keep Us Awake Nights
The Return to the Golden Horn and the End of the Assignment