Talk:Gertrude Bass Warner

»During John Foster Bass's time working for Harpers, Gertrude Bass Warner journeyed to Asia for the first time in 1904, living with John in the foreign enclave quarter of Shanghai while he covered the Boxer Rebellion in China.«

»During John Foster Bass's time working for Harpers, Gertrude Bass Warner journeyed to Asia for the first time in 1904, living with John in the foreign enclave quarter of Shanghai while he covered the Boxer Rebellion in China.« – There's something fishy about this sentence, I think, because the Boxer Rebellion in China happened between October, 18th, 1899 and September, 7th, 1901. It may well be that John Foster Bass lived in the Shanghai International Settlement in the year of 1904, but it seems unlikely that he did so in order to be able to cover the Boxer Rebellion, because that was over in 1904. It's far more likely that he stayed in Shanghai in 1904 to cover the Russian-Japanese War that took place from Februar 8th, 1904, through September, 5th, 1905. –

This Wikipedia entry gives the following source for this Shanghai information: Roth, Mitchel (1997). Historical Dictionary of War Journalism. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 24 . This reads, according to https://books.google.de/books?id=Og8-5_oqumYC&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24 , as follows:

»BASS, JOHN FOSTER (1866–1931). The largest contingent of war correspondents covering the 1897 Greco-Turkish War* for any one paper was from the New York Journal led by John Foster Bass from Chicago. He had prior experience on the front lines as the only American press representative covering the Egyptian-Sudan campaign in 1894 for the Chicago Record. Bass later covered the Spanish-American War* for the New York Evening Post and then the subsequent Philippines campaign for the Journal. He left the Philippines in 1901 for a posting in St. Petersburg for the Chicago Daily News. During the Russo-Japanese War* he headed the Daily News war coverage and witnessed the final engagements of the war, including the surrender at Port Arthur. Following the war he returned to St. Petersburg, remaining until 1915. During World War I* he reported the German capture of Warsaw and was wounded while covering the Russian front in 1916. After recovering from his wounds he covered campaigns in France, Italy, and the Balkans. He also took part in various government missions and covered the 1919 Peace Conference.«

In other words, Mitchel Roth / Historical Dictionary of War Journalism does not give the information that John Foster Bass lived in Shanghai in 1904. Of course that information may still be correct, though. It's simply not backed by the source given, as far as I can tell.

At https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv81365 I found the following information:

»In 1904 Gertrude accompanied her journalist brother, John, to Japan during the Russo-Japanese war. The following year John sent her for safety to Shanghai, recommending an acquaintance with his friend Maj. Murray Warner (1869-1920). Murray Warner, a graduate of Exeter Academy, held a degree from MIT and went to China to establish the engineering department of the American Trading Company. Warner was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Shanghai Volunteers, protecting American citizens during the Boxer Rebellion, a Chinese upraising against foreign imperialism in 1899-1900. Gertrude and Murray were married on Oct. 1, 1905 and took up residence in Shanghai.«

This quotation seems to support my assumption that John Foster Bass indeed was in the Far East in 1904, but not necessarily at Shanghai, and anyway not in order to cover the Boxer Rebellion but the Russo-Japanese war.

Would you please check? Thank you! – MYR67 (talk) 06:19, 24 September 2022 (UTC)