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What the writer has tried to portray is the atmosphere and fascination of THE CABLE GAME—the game that takes a man far from home ’midst alien races and into strange lands and makes him stake his all in his effort to win that goal of the journalist’s ambition—A World Beat.

S. W.

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The Dispatch Boat “France” lying at anchor in Odessa harbor PAGE From far Mongolia’s borders for 180 miles eastward stretches the line of the Japanese trenches ssss1 Regiment after regiment, fresh from Japan, pour along the newly made highways ssss1 With clanking chains and creaking limbers, batteries are going to the front ssss1 In eighteen months’ association with the army, we have not seen such activity ssss1 When the France entered Odessa harbor after the storm she was pretty well shaken up 92 Sulina—the mouth of the Danube River 92 General Nogi—than whom no finer gentleman ever drew the breath of life 198 Morris inspecting our Christmas dinner 198

CHAPTER I

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From War to Peace in Manchuria—Peking—A New Assignment, “Russia Direct”—Shanghai.

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