  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 |
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