Siberia and Eastern Russia. Part II - Pacific Coast to Irkutsk, Route Notes and Information. SCARCE.

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LIMITED EDITION, #361 of 2000 Copies, issued to Captain L. P. Johns, 27th Infantry. Listed as "CONFIDENTIAL / FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY". 180pp, xxxvii, bound in tan cloth, with folding snap closure. Includes a mounted Russian Alphabet, long folding photographic frontis-piece, 1 folding map, 15 full page maps and routes, 88 photographic plates, 1 line drawing, and one and half pages of handwritten notes / additions. Captain L. P. Johns of the 27th Infantry and Sargeant Benjamin Sperling of the 31st, both in uniform, were on official business in Iman, Siberia, when Cossacks, backed the Japanese, raided the hotel they were in and arrested the two men. Major General William S. Grave, the Commander of American Forces in Siberia, threatened action and demanded an apology from General Rolanoft. Capt. Johns managed to escape and went by train to Spasske, Sperling still in custody of the Cossacks was flogged, then released. N° de ref. del artículo 006322

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