Abstract: The “Port Arthur Massacre” holds a prominent place in journalism history for the sensationalist accounts by some western correspondents of the slaughter of the city's Chinese inhabitants by conquering Japanese troops in November 1894. Most representative of these accounts were those of James Creelman of the New York World. Forgotten in the history of wartime reporting from Port Arthur, however, are the accounts of A.B. de Guerville, a special correspondent for the New York Herald, who, as an eyewitness of the fall of the city, flatly denied Creelman's account of a massacre. This article seeks an explanation behind the widely divergent accounts of these two American reporters, and in so doing details the complex combination of factors—personal, professional, and political—that influenced the way the fall of Port Arthur was reported.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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