Told for the first time, this is the story of The Times' special correspondent Lionel James, who reported the first months of the Russo-Japanese War from the first ever wireless station used by a war correspondent. Transmitting from a specially chartered ship in the Yellow Sea to a cable station at Weihaiwei on the China coast, James gave The Times and copublisher The New York Times the opportunity to publish next day reports. It was a short-lived venture, however. James was forced to abandon his enterprise as a result of Russian and British Admiralty action, along with worries of reprisals by the Japanese with whom James had struck a special deal. Fully researched from primary sources, this volume provides valuable new insight into the media's role in war reporting and marks a turning point in media history.