Robert A. Krause (born January 15, 1950) is currently president of the Veterans National Recovery Center, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. He is a former State Representative from Iowa, and served in the Iowa General Assembly from 1973 until 1979. He also served as Regional Representative for the US Secretary of Transportation during the Carter Administration, as past Chair of the Iowa Democratic Veterans Caucus and as past president of the Reserve Officers Association, Department of Iowa. He also served on the Waterloo (IA) school board.

Early life and education
He was raised on a family farm in rural northwest Iowa, Krause graduated in 1968 from Sentral Community School District of Fenton, Iowa. He was active in 4-H, church, athletics and editor of the student newspaper.

Krause attended the University of Iowa financing his education with a combination of work, scholarships and loans. He graduated in 1972 with a B.A. degree in political science. He was a member of ROTC and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Reserve in the summer of 1972. Krause also served in the student senate and was president of University Democrats.  During summer breaks, he worked as a construction and railroad laborer. He also worked two summers for the Robert D. Fulton for Governor campaign the Iowa Democratic Party.

Politics
Krause ran for state representative to the Iowa General Assembly and served six years in the Iowa House of Representatives.
Krause's was appointed as Assistant House Minority Whip in his first term. In this capacity, he helped pass Iowa's collective bargaining for public employees law.

As Chair of the House Transportation Committee for four years, he was assisted in the passage of legislation that allowed for the establishment of the coordinated regional transit systems throughout Iowa, which became a national model of the Federal Transit Administration. He also crafted a restructuring of Iowa's road system that included Iowa's first ethanol exemption when passed, which became the basis for Iowa's ethanol industry. Because of these efforts and others, the Des Moines Register in 1978 honored him as one of the "Top 10 Most Effective Iowa Legislators."

Krause left the House that year to run for Treasurer of the State of Iowa. Although he lost, he ran 5 points ahead of the top of the ticket. After a brief stint for Land O'Lakes as transportation manager for the Agricultural Services Group, Bob left to become Regional Representative for the Secretary of Transportation in 1979. In this capacity, he was ranking department official for Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska, and he was administration spokesperson in the field for federal policy.

Post political career
After the Carter administration, Krause taught in the business school at Iowa State University then joined the staff of the Council of State Governments, the national association for state government officials. There he ran a think-tank on transportation policy, writing five books and staffing several national policy task forces on transportation matters. He left that position for an intergovernmental affairs position with Palm Beach County, Fla., but subsequently returned to Iowa for family reasons.

Upon his return Krause then served as transit director for the Iowa Northland Council of Governments before joining the Iowa Department of Transportation in 1986. He served as a district planner then served as planning and coordination manager for the Public Transit Division. He also managed Iowa's Rural and Large Urban Public Transit Intelligent Transportation System. He retired in 2008 from the Iowa DOT with 20 years of state government service, and served briefly as an advisor to the government of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on transportation policy matters. From there he returned to Iowa to take a position with VSE Corporation, a small defense contractor. In that role, Krause concerned himself with the readiness of weapons and equipment for a five state Army Reserve command. He left that position in early 2015.

2010 U.S. Senate election
Krause was a candidate for United States Senate from Iowa in the 2010 United States Senate election in Iowa. He lost the Democratic party primary to Roxanne Conlin who later lost in the Senate election against Charles Grassley. On Veterans Day, November 11, 2014, Krause again announced his intention to form an exploratory committee for a possible run against incumbent Senator from Iowa Charles Grassley.

2022 U.S. Senate election
In October 2021, Krause announced that he would be seeking the Democratic Party nomination for the 2022 United States Senate race.

Awards
Krause was recognized for his public service by having a locomotive named "Robert A. Krause" by the Rock Island Railroad in honor of his work on transportation issues. He was honored by the Secretary of Transportation for his efforts to pass railroad deregulation, which had been one of the Carter Administration's top priorities.

References

External links

 Krause For Iowa's Future official campaign website
 Bob Krause news coverage from The Iowa Independent
 Hansen: Grassley opponents think time is right Marc Hansen, Des Moines Register, August 16, 2009
 Bob Krause: Predicts that his "grand compromise" proposal will be included in House bill for health care IowaPolitics.com, July 23, 2009

1950 births
Iowa State University faculty
Living people
Democratic Party members of the Iowa House of Representatives
People from Jefferson County, Iowa
People from Algona, Iowa
United States Army officers
United States Army reservists
United States Department of Transportation officials
University of Iowa alumni
Military personnel from Iowa


Swamp Creek may refer to:

In Australia
 Swamp Creek (Comerang, Eurobodalla, New South Wales), a tributary of the Tuross River in Eurobodalla Shire
 Swamp Creek (Tuross, Eurobodalla, New South Wales), a tributary of the Tuross River in Eurobodalla Shire
 Swamp Creek (Snowy River, New South Wales), a tributary of the Eucumbene River in Snowy Monaro Regional Council
 Swamp Creek (Combienbar, East Gippsland, Victoria), a tributary of the Combienbar River in East Gippsland Shire
 Swamp Creek (Mitchell, East Gippsland, Victoria), a tributary of the Mitchell River in East Gippsland Shire

In the United States
Swamp Creek (Attapulgus Creek tributary), a stream in Florida and Georgia
Swamp Creek (Missouri), a tributary of Frederick Creek
Swamp Creek (Ohio), a stream in Preble County
Swamp Creek (Pennsylvania), a tributary of Perkiomen Creek
Swamp Creek (Washington), a tributary of the Sammamish River
Swamp Creek (Wisconsin), a tributary of the Flambeau River


HMS Unicorn was a 32-gun fifth-rate  of the Royal Navy, launched in 1794 at Chatham. This frigate served in both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, including a medal action early in her career. She was broken up in 1815.

French Revolutionary War
Unicorn entered service in 1794 under the command of Captain William Cayley, who was followed in 1795 by Captain Thomas Williams. Under Williams, Unicorn served in the Western Approaches, operating from Cork. On 31 May, Unicorn,  and  shared in the capture of the Dutch schooner Mary, Captain Pierce, master.

On 28 August 1795, Unicorn was in company with  and , when Unicorn captured the Dutch East Indiaman Cromhout or Crumhout. Cromhouts capture resulted in at least £40,000 in prize money to be distributed among her captors.

Then Unicorn parted company with the rest of the squadron and after a chase of 13 hours captured the Dutch brig Komeet (or Comet), which was under the command of Captain-Lieutenant Mynheer Claris. Comet was only four years old, in excellent condition, and armed with 18 English 9-pounder guns. She was sailing from the Cape of Good Hope to the Texel and was provisioned with water and food for 110 men for a nine-month cruise. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Comeet.

Crumhout, Komeet, and a third vessel, the southern whale ship Horstfelder, that the British also captured, were part of a convoy of nine East Indiamen and two naval vessels, Komeet and Scipio. Scipio escorted the remaining Indiamen into Norwegian waters, which they reached on 22 September. Scipio and three of the Indiamen reached Trondheim on 6 October. The remaining Indiamen went to Bergen and Ålesund.

On 10 April 1796, Unicorn recaptured the brig Thames while in company with Penguin and the hired armed cutter Fox. Unicorn, Fox, , Diana and Seahorse, were in company when Dryad captured the French cutter Abeille.

On 7 June, Unicorn and Santa Margarita captured a large ship flying Swedish colours and carrying Dutch goods from Surinam, which turned out to be the Gustavus Adolphus. The commander of the prize crew, a lieutenant from Unicorn, advised Admiral Sir Robert Kingsmill, commander in chief of the Cork station, that when he had last seen Unicorn and Santa Margarita they were chasing three French vessels, the frigates Tamise and , and the corvette Legere.

In the action of 8 June 1796, Unicorn captured the 44-gun Tribune. Before Unicorn could bring Tribune to close action the two vessels engaged in a ten-hour-long running fight. The actual close engagement lasted 35 minutes before Tribune struck. She was under the command of Commodore John Moulston and had lost 37 men killed of her crew of 337 men, as well as 15 wounded. (Moulston, who was wounded in the action, was an American who had served in the French Navy for 16 years.) Unicorn had no losses.

The Royal Navy took  into service under her existing name. Williams earned a knighthood for his victory. In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the remaining survivors of the action the NGSM with clasp "Unicorn 8 June 1796".

Santa Margarita captured Tamise in an action that would ultimately yield her crew a clasp to the NGSM. Legere escaped. Dryad captured the fourth vessel in Moulston's squadron, the 26-gun frigate Proserpine, which had earlier parted company with her companion vessels in a fog. The British took Proserpine into service as .

In September to early October, Unicorn captured five vessels sailing from Surinam to Amsterdam:
 Eliza (22 September);
 Orion (23 September);
 Christian the Seventh (24 September):
 Whilhemsberg (1 October); and
 Freiheden (4 October).

On 21 October Unicorn captured the 6-gun privateer Enterprise in the Irish Sea. Enterprise had a crew of 40 men and was 28 days out of Brest. During her cruise she had captured a Portuguese ship, two English brigs, and a sloop.

In December, Unicorn was one of the few British ships able to respond to the French effort to invade Ireland during the Expédition d'Irlande. On 7 January 1797, Unicorn was able to capture the troopship  with  and  and pursue the French flagship in the closing days of the campaign. Eleven days later Unicorn, Doris and Druid captured the privateer Eclair, of 18 guns and a crew of 120 men, in the Channel.  Unicorn then rejoined the British fleet. In August, Unicorn was in company with  when they recaptured the Somerset at Cove, near Cork.

In March 1797 command passed to Captain James Young and then to Captain Phillip Wilkinson in April 1799. Unicorn captured a French brig in March 1799.

On 9 June 1799 Unicorn and the hired armed cutter Constitution captured the French brig St. Antoine. On 10 June, two of Unicorns boats, together with two each from ,  and , all of Sir John Borlase Warren's squadron, captured the gunboat Nochette, two other armed vessels, and eight transports carrying supplies for the fleet at Brest. Nochette was armed with two 24-pounder guns. The two other armed vessels were chasse-marée armed with eight and six guns. The transports consisted of two brigs, two sloops, and four chasse-marée, which were carrying wine, brandy, flour and peas. In addition, the crews of 20 French vessels ran their vessels ashore, where many were probably wrecked. The British suffered four men wounded, but none were from Unicorn. Unicorn was short of water so Admiral St. Vincent ordered her to escort the prizes back to Plymouth and then immediately return to her station. Unicorn arrived at Plymouth on 18 June with ten vessels, one having foundered on the way. (The crew was saved.) She sailed for Brest on 27 June. Next, Unicorn participated in the attempt on the Spanish squadron in Aix Roads on 2 July.

On 6 January 1800 Unicorn was among the five vessels that shared in the capture of the French brig Ursule (or Huzelle). On 7 January, the French armed ship Huzelle came into Plymouth. She had been carrying passengers from Cayenne, including women and children, when  captured her. On her way in to a British port, the French privateer Providence, of 14 guns and 152 men, had recaptured her and sent her to Bordeaux. However, before she got there, Unicorn and   recaptured her in turn and sent her into Plymouth. Huzelle was low on provision with the result that a five-year-old child died while she was in Plymouth Sound; as she anchored at Catwater, M.P. Symonds, the broker for the prize, sent on board plenty of fresh provisions. Among Huzelles passengers were a Colonel Molonson of Invalids, and a naturalist, M. Burnelle, with a cabinet of curiosities for the French National Museum at Paris.

In June Unicorn was still with Warren's squadron off the Atlantic coast of France. She therefore shared in the capture on 11 June of ten merchant vessels: the brig Rosalie, Baure Paire, the sloop Rosalie, Bonne Nouvelle, Oiseau, Felicite, Nochelle, St. Claire, Henrietta, and Maree Francaise.  Unicorn was also among the five ships that shared in the proceeds of the capture of the French privateer Rancune, taken on 27 September. Unicorn shared in some of these prizes by virtue of being part of Admiral Keat's squadron. She also shared in the captures of Girone (28 July), Revanche (28 July), Alerte (1 July), Joseph (3 August), Vivo (30 September), and Magicienne (16 October). Unicorn shared with four other vessels in the capture of Union on 14 August. On 15 August Unicorn recaptured Petit Bastien, and four days later Hirondelle.

Command then passed to Captain Charles Wemyss in 1801. On 14 August Wemyss wrote to Admiral W. Cornwallis stating that he had only been able to capture one chasse-marée, of 40 tons, which was carrying a cargo of lime. Not only was she not worth sending in, capturing her cost Unicorn one man killed and one man slightly wounded. Wemyss had also destroyed another chasse-marée, also of 40 tons that was carrying a cargo of corn. Captain Charles Stuart replaced Wemyss in 1802. In April and May 1803 Unicorn was placed in dock at Chatham for extensive repairs.

Napoleonic Wars
Unicorn was recommissioned in April 1803 under Captain Lucius Hardyman for the North Sea. An assignment to escort a convoy of merchantmen from Sheerness to Riga was abandoned in mid-June due to poor weather. On 23 June she captured the Dutch fishing vessel Jonge Johannes, then on 17 September the neutral ship Catharina Louisa, which the High Court of Admiralty later restored to her owners. Then on 6 October she recaptured the William and Thomas. The salvage from William and Thomas went in whole or in part to pay expenses relating to the detention of Catherina Louisa. On 25 October Unicorn and  captured Catharina Tholens.

Unicorn sailed for Jamaica on 23 December 1804. On the morning of 6 May 1805, Unicorn was  north east by north of Cape Francois, off St. Domingo when she saw a strange sail  away. There was little wind so Handyman sent out four boats in chase. After rowing for many hours, and despite finally facing cannon and small arms fire, the British captured the privateer without taking any casualties. She turned out to be Tape-a-Bord, under the command of Citizen Hemiguelth. She was armed with four 6-pounder guns, and carried 46 men. She was out of Samana and had been on a cruise for 10 days without taking any prizes. On 15 October Unicorn captured the Spanish ship  Notre Dame de la Carmen, which was on her way from Havana to Cadiz with a cargo of cocoa.

On 7 May 1806, Unicorn captured the French privateer Galatea.

Unicorn sailed for the River Plate on 7 October 1806. She then was off Buenos Aires during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata.

In 1808 she returned to Britain. By 29 June she was off France when she, Seine,  and  captured the French brig Pierre Caesar. The Admiralty took Pierre Caesar into service as .

On 6 August Cossack captured Mouche with Unicorn, sharing in the prize money by agreement. Around 15 or 28 October Unicorn and  captured General Mulenfelis or General Muhlenfels.

In 1809 Unicorn was present at the Battle of Basque Roads.  had taken up a position by the Boyard Shoal. The frigates  Unicorn, , and  anchored close to her. Their task was to retrieve the returning crews of the fireships and to support the boats of the fleet that had assembled alongside , to assist the fireships. As it turned out the boats were not used. Still, in 1847 the Admiralty awarded the NGSM with clasp "Basque Roads" to all surviving claimants from the action.

Captain Alexander Robert Kerr assumed command in August 1809.

On 12 April 1810, Unicorn captured the 22-gun Esperence off the Île de Ré. Esperence was the former British Post-ship , but was armed en flute. She was under the command of a lieutenant de vaisseau and carrying a cargo of colonial produce from Île de France. In November 1810 Unicorn received an advance of £14,000 on the prize money from the capture of Esperence.

Unicorn captured the privateer Gascon on 3 February 1810. Gascon carried 16 guns and 113 men. She was two days out of Bayonne without having taken any prizes.

In April 1811 Captain George Bourgoyne Salt assumed command. Between 19 November and 3 February 1812 Unicorn captured five vessels: Industry (19 November), Jane (21 November), Fly (18 January), Manlius (21 January), and Good Intent (3 February). Unicorn shared the capture of Manlius with . On 30 March 1813 the frigate  and Unicorn captured the French privateer Miquelonnaise, of St Malo. She was pierced for 20 guns but carried 18, two long 12-pounders, eight long 6-pounders and eight 12-pounder carronades. She had a crew of 130 men and was about six months old. On this cruise she had been out four days from Quimper and had taken the small brig Alexander, which had been carrying a cargo of tin and iron from London to Lisbon. Miquelonnaise sank the brig rather than bringing her in.

In April Stag, with Unicorn in sight, took the 2-gun privateer schooner Hébé, the former Royal Navy schooner . The Royal Navy took her back into service as Lauretsinus. On 21 May, Unicorn captured the American schooner Miranda, of Rhode Island. She had a crew of six men, a burthen of 104 tons, and was sailing for Matunzas with a cargo of lumber.

Captain Samuel George Pechell took command of Unicorn in 1814. While under the command of Kerr, Salt, or Pechell, Unicorn sent in her boats to cut out a large brig sheltering under the batteries at Belle Île. The expedition cost the British two men killed. Unicorn also participated in the support of Spanish forces in the north of Spain, in the blockade of the Texel, and in patrols off the coast of Norway. Lastly, she also conveyed various members of the Royal Family to and from the Continent.

Fate
Unicorn was sold out of the service and broken up at Deptford in March 1815.

Notes

Citations

References

External links

 Ships of the Old Navy

Ships built in Chatham
1794 ships
Pallas-class frigates
Fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy


The Sunshine Coast Independent Schools Sports Association (SCISSA) was established in 2003 and provides a sporting competition for Independent schools on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Schools

Current member schools

Sports

Current

 AFL
 Basketball
 Netball
 Rugby Union
 Softball
 Touch Football
 Volleyball
 Water Polo

Carnivals
 Athletics
 Cross Country
 Swimming

See also
 List of schools in Queensland

External links
 Sunshine Coast Independent Schools Sports Association

Australian school sports associations
Sport in the Sunshine Coast, Queensland


Bob Krause may refer to:

 Bob Krause (athletic director) (1945–2015), former athletic director for Kansas State University
 Bob Krause (politician) (born 1950), Democratic candidate for the United States Senate from Iowa in 2010

See also
Robert Kraus, author (1925–2001), cartoonist and publisher
Robert Kraus (footballer)
Robert Krausz (1936–2002), commodities trader


Miloslav Ladislav "Ladi" Geisler (November 27, 1927 – November 19, 2011) was a German musician who established a high profile in the post-war German music scene.  Best known for his work with pop musicians Bert Kaempfert, James Last and Freddy Quinn, Geisler developed the distinctive "Knack-Bass" percussive bass sound that helped popularize the Bert Kaempfert Orchestra. He later released numerous records under his own name.

Life and work
As a child, Geisler received violin lessons and soon learned the trumpet. He first worked as an engineer in the electric company where his father was as a director. In the last phase of World War II, Geisler was drafted into the German Air Force, where he worked on the combat aircraft Heinkel He 162. While on a mission, he was captured by the British and was interned in a Danish POW camp.  With the help of a fellow prisoner, Geisler built an electric guitar and learned as a self-taught player. His role model was Oscar Moore, guitarist of singer Nat King Cole. In the camp he also made the acquaintance of the German musician Horst Wende, who brought him after discharge to Germany and made him a guitarist of his "Horst Wende Trio."

Geisler did some work for the NWDR, and after the spin-off of the NDR in 1955, he received a permanent position as a guitarist in the NDR Dance Orchestra under the direction of Franz Thon. Continuing to play with Wende, he signed a contract with the record company Polydor. In addition, while appearing with the Wende band in the Hamburg night club "Tarantella," Geisler met Freddy Quinn, with whom he developed a long-term recording relationship. Until the early 1960s Geisler participated in numerous recordings with Quinn.

By this time, Geisler had already become a known guitarist. At NDR he was used in many ways, such as with the NDR Symphony Orchestra and at the premiere of a work by Pierre Boulez at the Edinburgh Festival. In addition to Polydor, he also worked for other record companies and accompanied other singers like Evelyn Künneke, Greetje Kauffeld, Friedel Hensch, Esther and Abi Ofarim and Hildegard Knef.

From composer and big band leader James Last, he bought a late 50s Gibson EB bass guitar, with which he developed his legendary "Knack bass" sound that would become an integral feature in the Easy Listening orchestra of Bert Kaempfert. Later, he used a Fender Jazz Bass model. Most recently, he used a Fender Precision Bass when he was invited to live or recording sessions. Geisler's knack bass sound was a treble staccato bass guitar sound in which the bass string was plucked with a pick and immediately suppressed to cancel out any sustain.

In 1958, he recorded Happy Guitar / Samba estrella, his first solo record with the record company Telefunken.  Geisler lent his guitar amplifier to The Beatles for their 1961 recording session with Tony Sheridan (produced by Kaempfert), after the band's own equipment proved to be inadequate for recording purposes. For Philips and Ariola, but mainly with Polydor, he recorded until 1965 several more solo albums, partly with the Polydor band "The Playboys". Under their label, he reached in 1961 No. 19 in the German charts with the cover of world hit Wheels.  As a freelance musician, he was sought after by all the leading German record companies and worked, in some years, up to 1500 gigs. In 1988 and 1990 he went on tour in Japan, with the Alfred Hause Orchestra.

In the 1990s, he founded his own music studio, "Studio 17," and increasingly turned to jazz. He founded his own jazz band, worked together with Günter Fuhlisch and was last heard with the "same" Quintet. For several years Geisler served as Chairman of the German Composers' Association and the executive board of GEMA.

In 2008 he was featured on the Berlin Jazz Orchestra, music DVD (Polydor/Universal) Strangers in the Night –
The Music of Bert Kaempfert which was eventually released in 2012 after his death. In the spring of 2010, he was shown on the liner for Helen Schneider Swing CD – a tribute to Bert Kaempfert – where he participated as bassist. In his later years, Geisler used a compact and lightweight guitar amplifier, specially selected for its sonic characteristics. With this amp, and the sound of his Gibson L-4 CES guitar, and his unique sense of rhythm and soloing, he produced his distinctive guitar sound for enthusiastic audiences at numerous live performances.

Ladi Geisler died on November 19, 2011, shortly before his 84th Birthday in Hamburg.

Prizes and awards
In 2003, Geisler was awarded the Louis Armstrong Memorial Prize for Swinging Hamburg.

Discography

Solo-Singles
Happy Guitar / Samba estrella, Telefunken, 1958
Red River Rock / Dreaming Guitar, Polydor, 1960
Navajo / Lonely Guitar, Philips, 1961
Auf einem persischen Markt / Immer nur lächeln (In a Persian Market / Always Just Smile), Polydor, 1961
Amazon Paddleboat / Tomahawk, Polydor, 1962
Guitar Tango / Zwei Gitarren, Polydor, 1962
Little Geisha / Helena, Polydor, 1963
 Alte Kameraden / Einzug der Gladiatoren (Old Comrades / Entry of the Gladiators), Ariola, 1965

LPs and CDs
Mr. Guitar, LP, Polydor, 1962
Girls, Girls, Girls, LP, BASF, 1964
Memories of Spain, LP, Ex Libris, 1968
Guitar a la Carte Vol. 1, LP, AMG, 1968
Guitar a la Carte Vol. 2, LP, AMG, 1969
Guitar mit Disco 74, LP, Columbia, 1973
Swinging Guitar, LP, Intercord, 1977
Gitarrenträume unter Palmen (Guitar dreams under palm trees), Intercord, LP, 1978
Classics with the guitar, LP, EMI
Die Rock-Gitarre von Ladi Geisler (The Rock guitar Ladi Geisler), LP, Bear Family, 2000
Minor Swing, CD, Bear Family, 2000
Mr. Guitar, CD, BearFamily, 2000
Those Were The Days, CD, BearFamily, 2003
Günter Märtens trifft Ladi Geisler. Anekdoten eines Gitarrenspielers (Günter Maertens meets Ladi Geisler. Anecdotes of a guitar player), CD, Bear Family, 2007 (Audio Book)

References

:de:Ladi Geisler
ActMusic
Answers.com
Space Age Musicmaker
LADI GEISLER – inventor/creator of the "Knackbass"
The Bass Walks – Ladi Geisler (video photo-montage)

1927 births
2011 deaths
Czech guitarists
Male guitarists
Musicians from Prague


The Canadian Vickers Vista was a Canadian-designed single-seat flying boat.

Design and development
The Vista was the first Canadian-designed monoplane. It had a duralumin sheet hull and the tail was made of framed metal tubing. The wings were made of wood and the wing and tail surfaces were fabric. The design proved to have some undesirable traits. Since the RCAF chose the de Havilland DH.60 Moth, only one Vista was ever built.

Operational history
Once the prototype was completed, the production order was cancelled. After testing the airframe, the aircraft was shipped to the (RCAF) Air Station at (Jericho Beach), Vancouver in September 1930, where it was used for taxiing practice. When not being used it was moored out to test the effects of salt water on its duralumin hull. By 1931 the corrosion on the hull was bad enough that it was recommended for scrapping and this was done in May of that year.

Specifications

References

External links
www. airforce.forces.gc.ca

Flying boats
Vista
Single-engined pusher aircraft
High-wing aircraft


Collomb is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Bernard Collomb (1930–2011), French Formula One driver
 Bertrand P. Collomb (1942–2019), French business executive
 Francisque Collomb (1910–2009), French politician
 Gérard Collomb (born 1947), French politician
 Henri Collomb (1913–1979), French psychiatrist
 Jonathan Collomb-Patton (born 1979), French snowboarder
 Paul Collomb (1921–2010), French painter and lithographer
 Théo Collomb (born 2000), French footballer
 Aurélie Perrillat-Collomb Storti (born 1980), French cross-country skier
 Christophe Perrillat-Collomb (born 1979), French cross-country skier

See also
 Collom
 Colomb


"Is That a Tear" is a song written by John Jarrard and Kenny Beard, and recorded by American country music artist Tracy Lawrence.  It was released on November 26, 1996 as the fourth and final single from his album Time Marches On.  It peaked at number two on the United States Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, while it was a number-one hit in Canada.

Content
"Is That a Tear" is a mid-tempo song prominently featuring the fiddle and steel guitar. It begins when the narrator finds an unexpected message on his phone from an estranged lover. In the message, she says she's sorry she missed him and that she's doing fine. He plays the message over and over again, swearing he heard sadness and regret, or "a tear" in her voice. The song ends with the narrator contemplating whether he should call her back.

Music video
The music video was directed by Marc Ball, and is one of many music videos Lawrence filmed in the mid 1990s that featured a "quantum leap" theme (with Marc Ball as director). Beginning with the ending of the video for "Texas Tornado," it features Lawrence driving a taxicab, and helping a woman follow a group of men for an undisclosed purpose. It was also the last video to feature Lawrence's trademark mullet and mustache, which he sported from the beginning of his career in 1991 to approximately 1996.

Chart positions

Year-end charts

References

1996 songs
Tracy Lawrence songs
1996 singles
Songs written by John Jarrard
Atlantic Records singles
Songs written by Kenny Beard


Richard Trench (1710–1768) was an Irish politician and the ancestor of the Earls of Clancarty.

He was the second son of Frederick Trench and his wife Elizabeth Eyre, daughter of John Eyre. Trench represented Banagher in the Irish House of Commons from 1735 to 1671. Subsequently, he sat for County Galway, the same constituency his father had represented before, until his death in 1768. He served as colonel of Militia Dragoons of County Galway.

On 13 March 1732, Trench married Frances Power, only daughter of David Power. They had five daughters and six sons. Trench was buried at Ballinasloe. His third and eldest surviving son William was raised to the Peerage of Ireland.

In 1757 he applied for and received letters patent for the right to hold annual fairs in Ballinasloe on 17 May and 13 July.  While Ballinasloe is now famous for its Great October Fair only, in the past the town also hosted fairs in the other months of the year, the May Fair and the July Wool Fair being the most important of these.

References

1710 births
1768 deaths
Irish MPs 1727–1760
Irish MPs 1761–1768
Politicians from County Galway
Richard
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for King's County constituencies
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Galway constituencies
Place of birth missing


Polished concrete is a multi-step process where a concrete floor is mechanically ground, honed and polished with bonded abrasives in order to cut a concrete floor's surface. It is then refined with each cut in order to achieve a specified level of appearance.

This process also includes the use of a penetrant chemical known as a hardener. The concrete densifier/hardener penetrates into the concrete and creates a chemical reaction to help harden and dust-proof the surface. During concrete polishing, the surface is processed through a series of steps (in general a minimum of four grinding steps of processing is considered polished concrete) utilizing progressively finer grinding tools. The grinding tools are progressive grits of industrial diamonds in a bonded material such as metal/hybrid/resin often referred to as diamond polishing pads.  Polished concrete is a "green" flooring system and LEED approved. Concrete is not considered polished before 1600 grit, and it is normally finished to either the 1600 or 3000+ grit level. Dyes designed for concrete polishing are often applied to add color to polished concrete as well as other options such as scoring, creating radial lines, grids, bands, borders, and other designs. Any grinding under 1600 grit is considered a honed floor.

History
The oldest known form of polished concrete was discovered in the city of Jericho, in the valley of the River Jordan. According to the Bible, Jericho fell in 1200 BC. Researchers have since discovered several layers of concrete from earlier settlements. Among the layers was a polished concrete floor.

The polished concrete floor was discovered while bulldozing for a new motor speedway.

In 1886 and 1887, the Israeli archaeologist Garfinkle and retired professor Malinowski from Gothenburg in Sweden, who specialized in concrete, took the concrete samples and analyzed them in a laboratory. They determined the concrete originated in 7000 BC.

Malinowski stated that the lower part of the floor consisted of lime concrete with a thickness between 6-8 cm. He also stated the concrete was beige brown and had a very fine polished surface.

New or retrofit
In simple terms, the process of polishing concrete is similar to sanding wood. Heavy-duty polishing machines, for example concrete grinder, are used to gradually grind down surfaces to the desired degree of shine and smoothness.  The closest equivalent example would be polished granite or marble.

Polished concrete floor installation is categorized into two types: new floors, and retrofit floors.

New floors

New floors require less work resulting in lower costs, but there are a few things to be aware of before a new concrete floor can be polished. Firstly, the mix design of the concrete should be 3500 psi or higher. The concrete should always be poured full depth to take advantage of the concrete's full structural strength, and also help to prevent cracks. The concrete should always be professionally finished with power trowels and properly cured with water for seven days. Polishing should not begin until the concrete is fully cured (generally 28 days). The concrete slab can contain decorative aggregates to create many different aesthetic appearances. The aggregates are mostly sized 20mm, but almost anything can be used. The finished surface of the concrete will need to be finished to a high standard to facilitate the polishing process. According to the Global Concrete Polishing Institute, a FF (floor flatness) level of 50 or greater is desired. During the finishing phase, any decorative aggregates such as seashells, glass chips or even metal car parts can be dropped into the surface of the concrete. Builders must be aware as early as possible if the concrete is to be polished so that the final finish is of the best quality.

Retrofit floors
Retrofit floors can be done in different ways depending on the conditions of the concrete. If the existing concrete is in good condition the surface can be polished to just about any standard. If the existing floor slab is in poor condition, it can be cut, or ground and the natural aggregate can be featured as the "exposure level". If the existing surface is in very poor condition a topping slab with a minimum thickness of 50 mm (2 inches) can be added on top of the existing slab.

Diamond-polished concrete process
A diamond polished concrete floor is very time-consuming if done correctly, due to the fact that there are at least six to twelve steps of actual grinding involved. The general rule is to start the initial grinding with a coarse 30/60-grit diamond and finish with a 1600- or 3000+ grit diamond, depending on the exposure level of aggregate and gloss level required. These diamonds are impregnated inside a metal or resin-bonded segment. Typically, the diamonds' grit size will double once the first grind has been carried out. The polishing process begins with a 50-grit diamond resin pad instead of a metal segment. When using the resin pads the steps may be 100, then 200, 400, 800, 1600 and finally 3000+ grit. Throughout the process, a densifier is used to harden the concrete surface, which allows the concrete to be polished. A number of densifiers can be used; these consist of lithium, potassium or sodium silicates. In some cases, a grouting chemical is also used to fill in any holes, cracks or imperfections that were exposed from the initial coarse grinding step. The concrete can be also finished with a natural-look impregnating polish guard, which penetrates 2–5mm inside the pores of the concrete to prevent any deep staining from oils and spills. It is also breathable and not a sealer (as a sealer actually totally seals the concrete and does not allow vapor transmission).

"Hybrid" Concrete Polish
This system is not considered to be real polished concrete, as there is little physical refinement of the concrete slab. However, it does provide a similar look to polished concrete, so may be appropriate in some areas.  Typically, this system is referred to as a "half polish" as generally the surface is only processed through three steps of grinding (half the processing steps of a true polished concrete floor). The surface is densified, so the advantages of the densifier are inherited, then a concrete sealer or a high buildup of a concrete guard is used to create a shine. The "shine" is topical and generally wears easily, requiring high maintenance and reapplication of the material. While there is some level of refinement to the surface, the topical (chemical spray or rolled on) solution will wear off and need to be replaced depending upon the level of floor traffic. Grouting and patching may be required to fill any voids, holes, cracks or imperfections.

Grind-and-seal polished concrete process
This system is not considered to be polished concrete as there is very little physical refinement of the concrete slab. However, it does provide a similar look to polished concrete and may be appropriate in small spaces with little expected foot traffic or wear on the slab. While there may be some level of surface preparation this is a topical (chemical spray or rolled on) solution and will wear off and need to be replaced depending on floor traffic. Grouting and patching may be required to fill any voids, holes, cracks or imperfections. The surface is then cleaned and prepared for the application of either a gloss or matte surface coating or an impregnating enhancing sealer.

Process

Process involved in polishing concrete:
The concrete floor is cut with a variety of diamond abrasives of the concrete slab. Polishing can be done wet or dry. However, in the United States, new OSHA regulations on crystalline silica and protecting skilled trades in the concrete, masonry, and brick industries are encouraging the development of wet refinement systems or the use of industrial vacuums.
A densifier can be applied once the concrete is opened up and, in a condition, to readily accept the chemical. The step at which the densifier is applied is determined by hydration of the slab. There are many types of densifiers including, sodium, potassium, lithium, magnesium fluorosilicate and colloidal.
  The densifier is allowed to dry and cure until proper hardness has been achieved, followed by one or more abrasive cuts, which will refine the floor to the desired level of reflectivity.

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Advantages

Polished concrete is a form of sustainable design flooring, as it utilizes a material that has already been placed.

Polished concrete floors have the following advantages:

 low-maintenance – polished concrete is easily maintained with the use of clean water or a neutral pH cleaner. There are also many cleaners designed for the proper maintenance of polished concrete available. There is never a need for wax to be added as it will only dull the finish
 non slippery – due to high coefficient of friction
 dust-proof – minimizing risks dust mite and allergen problems; excludes support of mold growth
 ambient light – highly reflective polished concrete reduces lighting needs and can improve natural lighting

LEED 2009 standards contain guidelines for using polished concrete flooring to qualify for LEED credits.

Disadvantages
Previously, polished concrete floors were considered to have an extremely long life, but actually, their life depends on the usage.  If the usage is heavy, the polished concrete floor begins to degrade in quality.

Damage and Degradation
Even though polished concrete doesn't peel off like Epoxy and PU floors, its damage happens in the following phases:

 Development of rough patches on the floor
 Development of very fine hairline cracks on the floor
 Slowly, the rough patches start developing into potholes - which keep getting bigger and deeper with usage
 The hairline cracks form a network on the floor and then ultimately join to result in a damaged floor

See also
LEED
USGBC
Terrazzo
Concrete sealer

References

 Top 10 steps involoved in Polished Concrete Process

Concrete
Floors


Richard Trench may refer to:

Richard Trench (politician) (1710–1768), Irish MP for Banagher and Galway County
Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty (1767–1837), his grandson, Dutch noble, Irish and British MP, diplomat
Richard Trench, 4th Earl of Clancarty (1834–1891), Irish peer and Dutch noble
Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886), Irish poet and Archbishop of Dublin


HMS Druid was a 32-gun Hermione-class fifth-rate frigate of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1783 at Bristol. She served in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, capturing numerous small prizes. One of her commanders, Captain Philip Broke, described Druid as a "point of honour ship", i.e., a ship too large to run but too small to fight. He and his biographer's view was that it was a disgrace to use a ship like her as a warship. She was broken up in 1813, after a thirty-year career.

Career
Druid entered service in 1783 under the command of Captain John MacBride. He was succeeded the following year by Captain George Byron, who commanded her off Land's End. Captain Joseph Ellison replaced Byron in 1785, and remained in command for the next ten years. Druid served as a Royal escort between 1785 and 1788, returning to service in 1791 after a period paid off and under refit.

Druid and the smugglers
On 31 January 1788 a boat belonging to Druid captured the smuggler's lugger Revenge in Cawsand Bay. The lugger, under the command of a Henry Carter, belonged to Guernsey and was bringing in alcohol and other prohibited goods. Before Druid'''s boat could board the lugger, the smugglers fired on it. In the subsequent action, the smugglers killed one of Druids crew and wounded seven. By the time the boarding party reached the lugger, the master and ten crewmen had fled. The British Government offered a pardon to any smuggler, other than the master, giving information leading to the arrest of two other smugglers, and also offered a reward of £200 to anyone providing information leading to the arrest of two or more smugglers.

French Revolutionary warsDruid sailed to Jamaica in April 1792 and, with the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793, returned to operate in home waters.

At some point in 1793 she was in company with  when they captured the French merchant vessels Vaudrieul and Diare. Druid herself also captured the Dauphin. In June she captured the French 12-gun privateer Esperance in the English Channel.

In late 1793 Druid served in a small squadron under the command of Sir James Saumarez in the frigate , together with the brig  and the hired armed cutter Lion. They convoyed some transports with troops for Jersey and Guernsey, and there picked up pilots for Admiral MacBride. On 28 November Saumarez detached Lion to take the pilots to MacBride. Around 7 December Saumarez took his two frigates and the brig to the Isles of Bréhat. As they were maneuvering to attack some French vessels resting there, which escaped, Druid hit a rock, damaging herself. Saumerez sent her and Liberty into Plymouth for repairs.

In early 1794, Druid was in company with , , , and  when Flora captured the French sloop Viper. Viper was a new sloop of 18 guns and was captured outside of Havre de Grace.

Also in 1794, Druid was part of a frigate squadron that escaped from the 50-gun French Scévola and Brutus.Druid was at Plymouth on 20 January 1795 and so shared in the proceeds of the detention of the Dutch naval vessels, East Indiamen, and other merchant vessels that were in port on the outbreak of war between Britain and the Netherlands.

In 1795 Captain Robert Carthew Reynolds replaced Ellison, but was himself replaced the same year by Captain Richard King. King convoyed merchant ships to and from Portugal until early 1797, when Druid participated in the operations against the French Expédition d'Irlande. On 7 January she helped  and  capture the Ville de Lorient. Ville de Lorient was a frigate, armed en flute, i.e., she had reduced armament to permit her to serve as a transport. She was carrying 400 hussars to join the rebels in Ireland, together with weapons and supplies.Druid also shared with  and  in the capture of the French privateer Eclair. Unicorn was the actual captor. Eclair was armed with 18 guns and had a crew of 120 men.

King then moved to another ship, with command of Druid transferring to Captain (acting) Edward Codrington. Druid was paid off in March 1797.

On 5 November 1796 Druid was in company with ,  and  when they captured the Spanish ship Adriana.Druid was fitted out as a 16-gun troopship between February and April 1798 under the command of Commander Edward Abthrorpe. On 14 May she sailed from Margate to take part in Sir Home Popham's failed attack on Ostend. The British troops landed and destroyed some sluices and locks to block gunboats and transports at Flushing from joining an invasion of Britain. However, high surf prevented the retrieval of the troops, and the landing party suffered 60 men dead and wounded, and 1134 captured. The captives included John MacKellar of the frigate , and his boat crew. The sluices were repaired within weeks.Druid sailed to the Mediterranean in 1801 to support operations in Egypt. Because Druid served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorised in 1850 for all surviving claimants.

The next year Druid sailed to the West Indies. Druid came under the command of Commander Charles Ross in 1802, returning to Britain later that year to be paid off.

Napoleonic Wars
A period of repair and refit began in 1804 which saw her returning to service as a 32-gun fifth rate in April 1805 under the command of Captain Philip Broke. Druid operated from Ireland and soon afterwards captured the privateer Prince Murat on 2 February 1806 after a chase of 90 miles. Prince Murat, under the command of M. Rine Murin, was five days out of Lorient without having made any captures. She was armed with eighteen 6-pounder guns and had a crew of 127 men. Druid sent Prince Murat into Plymouth.

On 1 May 1806 Druid chased the French brig corvette Pandour, bound for France from Senegal, 160 miles into Rear Admiral Charles Stirling's squadron where she was brought to; Druid had to share the prize money with Stirling's entire squadron and so earned relatively little for the long chase. Pandour was under the command of M. Malingre and had a crew of 114 men. She had been armed with eighteen 6-pounder guns, but her crew had thrown two of the guns overboard during the chase. Stirling instructed Broke to bring her into Plymouth, where they arrived on 9 May.

About the same time Druid chased a large frigate into the Passage du Raz, near Brest. She was probably the Topaze. Due to missed communication between Druid and , Topaze escaped.

Next, Broke caught up with the Guernsey privateer Providence with a view to pressing some of her crew. However, when he heard how she had held off a French privateer off Bilbao, he recognized the crew's courage by leaving the men alone. During this cruise Druid captured a neutral vessel with a Prussian cargo, which made her a legitimate prize. Then Broke chased the Guernsey privateer cutter Hope for some 76 hours before he was able to catch her and impress some seamen from her. Lastly, he sailed Druid northwest of Ireland to intercept the returning Greenland whalers. He was able to impress 12-20 seamen from the whalers to add to Druids crew.

Broke was then appointed to  in June 1806 but his replacement, Captain John R. Bennett, came aboard Druid on 31 August. Therefore, when Druid captured Swanen on 2 July, she was still under Broke's command.

Captain Donald H. Mackay then replaced Bennet. On 14 February 1808, Druid captured the Danish brig Catharina.

Captain Captain Sir William Bolton took command later in 1808. On 19 March 1809 Druid captured the schooner Belle Hortense. The schooner Hortense, prize to Druid, arrived at Portsmouth from Martinique on 10 April. On 25 June Druid captured the French private ship of war Jenny and her cargo.

On 13 November Druid captured the French navy brig Basque, armed with 16 guns with a crew of 112 men under the command of lieutenant de vaisseaux Liscourt. She had been sailing from Bayonne to Guadaloupe, with flour and other stores. The Royal Navy took Basque into service as .

On 23 November Druid brought a French brig, that may or may not have been Basque, into Cork. Druid had sighted three strange sails at night. There being no wind, Bolton sent out three boats, admonishing the officers to take care and to attack if any of the vessels should be a French warship. Unfortunately, the officers did not heed the warning and went in seriatim, with their quarry killing or capturing their crews. Bolton was unaware of what had happened. The French vessel then took to her sweeps. Next morning Bolton followed her with his sweeps, but again lost her that night. By chance, on the second morning he encountered her again, and this time there was enough of a breeze that he could catch her after a chase. When he did, the newspaper accounts report that he found that she was a large privateer. He also was able to recover those of his men who had been taken prisoner. Apparently, Druid had lost 10 men killed and wounded, in addition to the 17 prisoners that he recovered. The two brigs that had been with the French vessel on the first night had long escaped.

In August 1810 Captain Sir John Lewis assumed command, sailing Druid for the Mediterranean on 28 August. In May 1811 Captain John Searle took command, followed the next month by Captain Abel Ferris. Druid then sailed for the Mediterranean on 12 June. In May 1812 Captain Francis Stanfell took command in the Mediterranean. Between the end of 1811 and early 1812, Druid supported the British capture of Tarifa, near Cadiz.

Fate

By 1813 Druid had returned to home waters and was under Captain William King. She was broken up at Woolwich in November 1813.

Notes

Citations

References

Brighton, John George, and Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke (1866) Admiral Sir P. B. V. Broke ...:a memoir.  (S. Low, son, and Marston).

 Ross, Sir John (1838) Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord De Saumarez: From Original Papers in Possession of the Family''. (R. Bentley).

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Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard (July 8, 1868, in Missouri – September 7, 1942, in Seattle, Washington) was an American journalist, newspaper editor, founder of the China Weekly Review, author of seven influential books on the Far East and first American political adviser to the Chinese Republic, serving for over fifteen years. Millard was "the founding father of American journalism in China", and "the dean of American newspapermen in the Orient," who "probably has had a greater influence on contemporary newspaper journalism than any other American journalist in China.” Millard was a war correspondent for the New York Herald during the Spanish–American War, the Boer War, the Boxer Uprising, the Russo-Japanese War and the Second Sino-Japanese War; he also had articles appear in such publications as The New York Times, New York World, New York Herald, New York Herald Tribune, Scribner's Magazine, The Nation and The Cosmopolitan, as well as in Britain's Daily Mail and the English-language Kobe Weekly Chronicle of Japan. Millard was the Shanghai correspondent for The New York Times from 1925. Millard was involved in the Twain-Ament Indemnities Controversy, supporting the attacks of Mark Twain on American missionary William Scott Ament.

Biographical details
Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard was born in Rolla, Missouri, on July 8, 1868, the son of Tennesseans Alvin Marion Millard (born about 1830), a merchant, and his wife Elizabeth E. Smith (born about 1840). By 1870 Millard was living at Piney, Texas County, Missouri, with his parents; Samuel Millard (born about 1805), his grandfather; his uncles, George F. Millard (born about 1833), Cristie F. Millard (born about 1846), Patric H. Smith (born about 1850); and his mother's sister, Callie C. Smith (born about 1848).

Education
Millard attended the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy (now the Missouri University of Science and Technology) at Rolla, Missouri, from 1878 to 1882, and the University of Missouri from 1884, during the presidency of The Rev. Dr. Samuel Spahr Laws (1824–1921). Millard was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and graduated in 1888.

Honors
In June 1929 Millard received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Missouri. Millard received the Order of the Jade from the Chinese government.

Millard as journalist

St Louis Republic (1895–1898)
In 1895 Millard began his career in journalism at the St. Louis Republic, "the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi River, which carried the slogan "America's Foremost Democratic Newspaper" on its masthead". Millard was eventually dismissed from this position due to "a characteristic fit of stubbornness" for refusing to cover a fire.

The New York Herald (1897–1911)
After his termination at  the St. Louis Republic, Millard became as a drama critic for the New York Herald in 1897.

Greco-Turkish War (1897)
Millard was war correspondent for The New York Herald during the five-week Greco-Turkish War, which ended with a victory for Turkey on May 21, 1897.

Spanish–American War (1898)
Millard covered the Spanish–American War in Puerto Rico, reporting on the capture of Cuomo in August 1898.

While covering the war in Cuba, Millard's interview with American Major General William Shafter after his deportation of fellow correspondent Henry Sylvester "Harry" Scovel (1869–1905) of the New York World for disobeying a military order, resulted in Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World, firing Scovel. During his time in Cuba, Millard helped feed the starving New York Herald sketch artist and realist painter William Glackens.

Central America
Millard reported on hostilities in Central America for the New York Herald.

Second Boer War (1898–1900)
Millard covered the Second Boer War by accompanying the Boer forces for both "The New York Herald" and the London Daily Mail. Millard was able to interview Boer commandant general Louis Botha (born September 27, 1862; died August 27, 1919) in July 1900 after the fall of Pretoria, in which Botha criticised State President of the South African Republic (Transvaal) Paul Kruger and the War Office for their conduct of the war.  Millard's writings on the Afrikaner struggle, especially his dispatches criticizing British colonialists and glorifying their enemy, so enraged the British commander Lord Kitchener, that Millard was deported from the country before the cessation of hostilities.

Philippine–American War (1900)
Millard was among the war correspondents who covered the Philippine insurrection.

Boxer Uprising (1900)
Millard covered the Boxer Uprising in 1900 for the New York Herald. In the aftermath of  the Uprising, Millard denounced the Allied Powers and their insistence on punitive indemnities. "Seized with a vertigo of indiscriminating vengeance," in 1901 he wrote
the powers are trifling with the peace of the world. Events such as the months of September, October and November [1900] brought to China have carried war back to the Dark Ages, and will leave a taint in the moral atmosphere of the world for a generation to come.

In January 1901 Millard supported fellow anti-imperialist Mark Twain in his controversy with American Congregationalist missionary to China, William Scott Ament over the collection of indemnities from Chinese subjects. In 1901, Millard toured the United States with American pioneer cinematographer C. Fred Ackerman of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company presenting an illustrated propagandist lecture "War in China", which included both lantern slides and films shot during the Boxer Uprising by Ackerman.

Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)
In 1904 Millard was in Manchuria reporting the Russo-Japanese War. In his reports, Millard "provided some of the most accurate insights into the changing nature of modern war." While Millard spent most of the war with the Russian forces in Manchuria, and was allowed in the battle zone, "his initial sympathy for the Russians did not deter his recognition of the superior adaptation of modern techniques by the Japanese forces."

Korea (1905)
After the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War, Millard was able to travel to Korea, where he reported on the Japanese occupation of Korea.

Moro Rebellion (1907–1908)
In 1907 Millard visited the Philippine Islands. One of the issues Millard reported on was the Moro Rebellion. In an article filed from Zamboanga in December 1907, published in The New York Times on March 15, 1908, and subsequently reprinted in both the Mindanao Herald on May 16, 1908, and the Washington Post, Millard revealed allegedly pernicious features of Moro society (including slavery, polygamy, concubinage, piracy and despotism) that were tolerated by the American administration in Manila due to the agreement between Brigadier General John C. Bates and Jamalul Kiram II, the Sultan of Sulu, in August 1899 that promised to respect the religion and customs of the Moros and the authority of the sultan in his own territory in exchange for recognition of American authority over the Sulu archipelago. Millard described the situation: "The laws were crude and their administration barbaric." Millard called for the abrogation of the Bates Treaty as it undermined American authority and was inconsistent with American laws and mores. Millard also described the danger for American military in Moroland, especially from the juramentada, "a type of religious fanatic who occasionally gets it into his crazy head to draw his barong and run amuck."

The China Press (1911–1917)
Millard remained in the Far East following the war and was active in both journalism and business. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, as it was a time of political transition in China characterized by disorder and lack of authority, Millard and those associated with him were able to engage effectively in advocacy journalism. According to Paul French, "Millard was reasonably academic and precise in his advocacy for China".

In August 1911 Millard co-founded with Dr. Wu Tingfang (born 1842 in Singapore; died June 23, 1922), former Chinese envoy to the United States and later acting premier of China, and Y.C. Tong, The China Press, (Ta Lu Pao) a Shanghai daily, that was "the first US-owned newspaper in China, excluding missionary publications." Its "American style" soon brought a rapid circulation increase, increasing to four to five thousand daily by the mid-1920s.

The editorial offices of The China Press were located originally at Lane 126, 11 Szechuan Road, Shanghai, a block from The Bund, and later at 14 Kiukiang Road (Jiujiang Lu) in Shanghai. Among those journalists Millard recruited for The China Press were Carl Crow, and Charles Herbert Webb. As originally conceived, The China Press "was to be a truly international newspaper with headlines dictated by world events and not dissimilar in layout to the New York Herald-Tribune." Benjamin Fleischer, founder of Yokohama-based Japan Advertiser, and wealthy American industrialist Charles R. Crane supplied most of the finances for the purchase of equipment. Millard was often subsidized by Crane to the tune of $500 a month, and at times by various Chinese governments.

Millard intended "to make the enterprise "substantially Chinese in backing and sympathy," among other things breaking with the colonial convention of ignoring "native" news." According to Paul French, Millard had started The China Press partly with the vision that the paper should promote contact between the foreign community and the Chinese. He went so far as to install several prominent Chinese on the paper's board of directors and actively sought to promote China stories to the front pages using the adage that news about China should be treated in the same way as the big New York papers covered US news. The China Press'''s support for the government of the nascent Republic of China, resulted in an exclusive weekly interview with prominent Chinese politician Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the first provisional President of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Kuomintang.  Even after Dr. Sun's "retirement" and replacement as president by Yuan Shikai, "Millard decided that he would provide continued blanket coverage of Sun and his ideas despite his political sidelining."

Millard edited the paper for six years. While The China Press became "the widest-circulating English-language daily newspaper in Shanghai", competition from the rival British-owned North China Daily News, and reduced advertising revenue due to Millard's perceived anti-British reporting on World War I, forced Millard to resign as editor in 1917. In 1918 Millard sold The China Press to Edward Ezra, a British Jewish businessman. Ownership eventually  passed to Hollington Kong Tong in the fall of 1930.French, 76–77.

Millard's Review of the Far East (1917–1922)
On Saturday June 9, 1917, Millard co-founded with John Benjamin Powell (1886–1947), a new journal, "Millard's Review of the Far East" (Mileshi pinglun bao), a weekly Shanghai English-language publication. "Honest direct reporting from Shanghai covering news of the Far East and relations with the United States became a goal" for Millard when he founded the Review, which was modeled after the influential American political journal The New Republic edited by Herbert Croly and Walter Lippmann, and anti-imperialistic Oswald Garrison Villard's The Nation. Its editorial offices were at what is now named the Union Building, Shanghai, a six-storey Neo-Renaissance building opened in 1916, then considered No.4 The Bund.

Acting on Millard's conviction that it should publish "Anything we damn please", it featured original reporting, reports on China-related subjects, and opinion. Coverage of the development of the May Fourth Movement in Shanghai helped further its cause. In the Review, Millard criticised the policies of many of Shanghai's leading foreigners, and championed Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang army.

As Millard was often absent overseas in Europe or the United States, he left the management of the Review to Powell. In 1922 Millard sold his share of the magazine to Powell, who had renamed it on June 4, 1921 The Weekly Review of the Far East: Devoted to the Economic, Political and Social Development of China and Its Intercourse with other Nations, and in June 1923, The China Weekly Review.

The Missouri News Colony in China
Millard recruited often from his alma mater, the University of Missouri's School of Journalism, and was influenced by the recommendations of its dean Walter Williams, with the result that there was from 1911 a "Missouri News Colony" which was "one of the recognized groups of foreign journalists alongside the large British contingent and a smaller caucus of Australians" in Shanghai. Known variously as the Missouri mafia,Stephen R. MacKinnon and Oris Friesen, eds. China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1987): 3, 25 (accessed April 7, 2009. the Corn Cobbers, and the Cowboy Correspondents, the group included Millard, Charles Crow; Edgar Snow; John Benjamin Powell; John W. Powell; Morris J. Harris chief of the Associated Press bureau in China; John Harris of UP; H.S. Jewell; Victor Keene of the New York Herald Tribune; Hollington Kong Tong
(董顯光 pinyin: Dong, Xian‘guang) (born November 9, 1887; died January 10, 1971, in New York city), later Ambassador from Nationalist China to the U.S. (April 5, 1956, to 1957); Henry Francis Misselwitz (born July 24, 1900, in Leavenworth, Kansas), correspondent for The New York Times and the United Press in Japan and China from 1923 to 1936; and Joseph Glenn Babb, chief Associated Press correspondent in China.China Reporting, 25–26.

The New York Times (1925–1927)
In 1925 Millard became the first China correspondent for The New York Times,.

Dismissal
In the immediate aftermath of the Shanghai massacre of 1927 and the shelling of Nanjing by American and British forces in April 1927, The New York Times dismissed Millard, "far the ablest reporter of Far Eastern affairs" and replaced him with Frederick Moore (born November 17, 1877, in New Orleans, Louisiana; died 1956), former foreign councilor to the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, because of Millard's sympathy for the Kuomintang. Confidential assessment by the British Foreign Office on Millard's dismissal indicated its favour with this development:
Mr. Millard, who until this week has " covered " Shanghai, did not give the impression of being too friendlily disposed towards Great Britain, and was, in addition, inclined to wax a trifle sentimental over the struggles of China to overthrow foreign aggression.

On April 18, 1927, Time magazine protested Millard's dismissal:
In Manhattan, the fact that the meticulously accurate Times has ceased to employ Mr. Thomas F. Millard as its correspondent in China aroused comment. His work has been of such high, impartial character that contemporary historians writing upon China have nearly all referred to his despatches. Replacing Mr. Millard, the Times has sent to China, Correspondent Frederick Moore. Of him the American Committee for Justice to China, in Manhattan, said, last week, is a circular news despatch: "Many letters of protest have been and are being sent to the Editor of the New York Times asking for the dismissal of Mr. Frederick Moore, whose strong-prejudices and interests make him incompetent as an impartial gatherer of news."

New York World (1927–1929)
Millard was then employed by the New York World.

The New York Times (1929–1942)
However, when Moore resigned to become an adviser to the Japanese government in 1929, Millard was rehired by The New York Times, a position he held until his death in 1942.

Second Sino-Japanese War (1937)
Millard covered part of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and was high on the Japanese blacklist because of his anti-Japanese sentiments.

Millard as Adviser to the Chinese Government
Between 1919 and 1935, Millard shuttled between advising the Chinese government and journalism. He was adviser to the Chinese at the Paris Peace Conference, the League of Nations sessions from 1920 to 1922, the Far East conference in Washington in 1921.

Paris Peace Conference (1919)
After the conclusion of World War I, in December 1918, Millard left China and traveled to Europe to attend the 1919 Paris Peace Conference as the personal secretary of Charles R. Crane, and as an unofficial adviser to the Chinese delegation in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles. In May 1919 Millard attempted unsuccessfully to have Japan sign a declaration to resolve the Shandong Problem, namely to restore to China the territory granted to Germany in Shandong province in 1897 that was captured by Japan in 1914. The Japanese delegation objected to Millard's presence in the discussions. In response to the February 1919 proposal by Japan to insert a racial equality  statement in the charter for the League of Nations,
Millard saw the proposal principally as having a propaganda value for the Japanese and believed that the United States had nothing to fear from it as it was merely 'a placation of Japan and Asiatic peoples', [and] "considered the Japanese proposal as being too vaguely worded to have any effective threat value."

US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1919)
After the signing of the Versailles Treaty on June 28, 1919, Millard subsequently testified on behalf of the Chinese government before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, which ultimately rejected ratification of the Treaty,

In July 1919 while in Washington, D.C., Millard revealed publicly his belief that there was a secret tripartite entente between Britain, France and Japan in regard to the Shantung Problem and accepting "Japanese suzerainty" over Manchuria, and portions of China thus destroying "the political autonomy and territorial integrity of China as is guaranteed by the Hay Doctrine", and "would practically eliminate the United States from political influence and commercial equal opportunity in Asia." On July 25, 1919, Millard spoke to members of the US Congress at a dinner in his honour on the relations between China and Japan and on the Shantung Problem. Millard also revealed that there were efforts to suppress his book on the Eastern question by Federal agents of the United States, but were terminated after support from US President Woodrow Wilson.

League of Nations (1920–1922)
Millard was appointed an adviser to the Chinese delegation to the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland serving in this capacity until 1922.

Conference on Limitation of Armament and Pacific Problems (1921)
Millard advised the Chinese government at the Conference on Limitation of Armament and Pacific Problems held in Washington, D.C., in 1921, before returning to the Far East."En Route to the Far East", Far Eastern Fortnightly: the Bulletin of the Far Eastern Bureau 8 (1921). This Conference resulted in the signing on February 4, 1922, of a treaty between China and Japan on the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Shandong, and on February 6, 1922, the Washington Nine Power Treaty on the Sovereignty of China, by representatives of the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, and China, which embodied "the principle of recognizing China's sovereignty and territorial integrity". This treaty went into force on December 31, 1922.

Presidential adviser (1922)
In 1922 moved to Peking, then capital of the Republic of China, after being named adviser to Li Yuan-hung (pinyin: Li Yuanhong), president of the Chinese Republic.

Extraterritoriality Treaty Revisions (1929–1930)
In 1929 began working for the Chinese Nationalists, the Kuomintang,. In June 1929, the Chinese government sent Millard, to the United States to lobby for the abolition of extraterritoriality in China which had been re-established in the Boxer Protocol (Xinchou Treaty) of September 1901. Millard discussed problems in Sino-American Relations at the White House and at the State Department. The three major points he attempted to communicate were:
1. the isolation of the American legation at Beijing and the advantages of moving it to China's new capital at Nanjing;
2. the replacement of the American envoy to China, John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1881–1960) (served 9 April 1925 to 22 November 1929), because of the apparent hostility between him and the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Zhengting;
3. the Americans should support China in their attempts to abolish extraterritoriality by 1 January 1930.

MacMurray was dismissed November 22, 1929, and replaced by Nelson T. Johnson on December 16, 1929. However, Millard but was unable to secure American support for the abolition of extraterritoriality. In August 1929 Millard blamed "the apparent collusion between Washington and London and tried to show Hornbeck that persistent refusal of treaty revision would inevitably drive China to unilateral action." During the subsequent discussions for the renegotiation of the Unequal Treaties, Millard observed in his book Extraterritoriality in China (1931) that Britain and the United States would not give up unless China took unilateral action and forced the two powers to react: "Talk will not move them now in Washington or London. It requires action." Millard recommended suspending the negotiations, and then abolishing all treaty provisions.

Dismissal (1935)
In the September 7, 1935, edition of the China Weekly Review founded by Millard, it was announced that Millard intended to return to his work as a writer. In October 1935, just after his return to Shanghai on September 25 from several years in the United States, Millard was dismissed as a government adviser to the Nationalist government, as "[h]is inflammatory anti-Japanese feelings ran counter to Chiang's policy of appeasement."

Later years and death
Unmarried, in his late sixties, and feeling he belonged in China as much as any place, Millard stayed in Shanghai until he broke his shoulder in a fall in front of the American Club. On June 23, 1941, Millard sailed from Manila, the Philippines, on the Titania, and arrived in Los Angeles on July 11, 1941. Sometime afterward, Millard went to Seattle to recover with relatives and never returned. After a period in a sanitarium in Wheeler, Oregon, until the end of August 1942, Millard died of cancer on September 7, 1942, in Seattle.

Personal description
Millard was "a well known man-about-town in Shanghai in 1911. He lived in the smart Astor House Hotel, and was renowned for his snappy dress and abilities on the dance floor, as well as his established liberal views." By 1917, colleague John B. Powell described Millard as "a short, slender man weighing perhaps 125 pounds", who was considered "suave and immaculately dressed" Powell's son, journalist John W. Powell described Millard in later years:
About Millard, I only knew him in his later years, but he was still very much of a personality, elegant, white haired, charismatic, belting down martinis, and chasing and being chased. He was always charming and considerate to me. Dad was very fond of him and always said he learned a lot from Tommy, but also discovered early that he was difficult to work with.

According to Hamilton, Millard was "cocky and often rude, always dressed fashionably and lived comfortably. He was immaculate, even when covering a battle." As a war correspondent for the New York Herald, Millard earned a disfiguring facial scar in the process. Historian Mordechai Rozanski described Millard as "an adventurer, a romantic, a muckraker, and a progressive. He had a sense of mission that many who lived in the Midwest and Missouri carried with them into the world.

Professional evaluation
According to Peter Rand, Millard's writing was at times "brilliant" and "inspiring". Referring specifically to Millard's career in China:
Millard was the patriarch of the China Hand journalists.  Millard was the misfit par excellence, who established the rules of the game. He was a bantam-sized man and all else may have stemmed from that fact.... Millard flourished as a war correspondent.

As early as 1906, Millard was described as "one of the more critical and trustworthy students of the Orient and its problems". A reviewer of his 1928 book China: Where it is Today and Why, indicated that "Probably no journalist in the world is better prepared to write about Chinese affairs than Thomas F. Millard."Time magazine referred to Millard in 1925 as "the most eloquent American voice in the Far East," and in 1927 described him as "the meticulous and widely quoted correspondent of the New York Times," while elsewhere he was considered "the fairest American correspondent in China." By 1938, Millard was "considered the greatest American expert on Chinese affairs."

In an obituary in Time magazine just after his death in 1942, Millard was eulogised as: "More honest than discreet, he was a frequent critic of U.S. policy in China, a more strenuous critic of Japanese policy." In 1946, a four years after Millard's death, his contributions to journalism was described: "The articles of Thomas F. Millard, a veteran correspondent with a perspicacity which penetrated the Oriental mind and an amazing flair for prophecy."

Beliefs
According to his protégé Edgar Snow, Millard was "anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, pro-independence, pro-equality of nations, pro-Republican, pro-self-determination and very pro-American." In 1925 Time magazine described Millard as "a hard-headed imperialist thinking in terms of weltpolitik for a "parochially-minded" Republic." Millard had read expansionists Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, Albert J. Beveridge, and Brooks Adams. ... [H]is experiences in the Boer, Greco-Turkish, Spanish–American and Russo-Japanese wars convinced him that America had a special role to play in the Far East."

Millard and Britain
Millard hated imperialism, especially the colonialism of Britain. Covering the Second Boer War in South Africa he developed a lifelong case of Anglophobia.

Millard and Japan
Millard opposed the expansion of the Empire of Japan and was considered to be anti-Japanese as he saw the incompatibility of Japanese and American interestsKaren Garner, Precious Fire: Maud Russell and the Chinese Revolution (Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2003):34. and because of his own observations of Korea under Japanese rule and the Japanese treatment of Koreans after the occupation of Korea in 1905, arguing that the images of Japan in Europe and America were the propaganda from the Japanese press bureau.Millard, The Far Eastern Question, 102. The American Asiatic Association "made no secret of its disrespect for Mr. Millard, a man possessed of "a more or less acute form of Japophobia". Millard "feared that ... an anti-Western Japan would guide the Chinese masses". Millard claimed he had "positive evidence of the existence of a systematic and well-developed plan of Japan to control and manipulate" Chinese public opinion against westerners and to eliminate them from China. In his book Our Eastern Question (1916), Millard wroteFrom what I know of Japan, inside and outside, I am convinced that Western knowledge of darkest Russia is as the noonday sun to the moon compared to general Western understanding of internal forces which sway the policy of Nippon.

Millard opposed publicly Japan's Twenty-One Demands made on China in January 1915, and with Stanley K. Hornbeck participated in seminars in Wisconsin "to stir up anti-Japanese excitement". Millard contended that "Japan employed bludgeoning tactics all through the negotiations. She reinforced her military forces in Shantung and Manchuria and made strategical dispositions unmistakably directed against China." In response to the Japanese opposition to the California Alien Land Law of 1913 which prohibited the transfer of land rights to aliens ineligible for citizenship, including the Japanese, in March 1916 Millard wrote an article, "The Japanese Menace" in The Century, arguing that status quo be maintained as Japanese demands threatened American sovereignty in its own land, and furthered the advancement of Japanese economic superiority over Korea, China, and Manchuria. In reviewing Millard's 1916 book The Eastern Question, The Missionary Review of the World indicated: "If one distrusts or dislikes Japan, he will read this volume." In late 1918, before he left China to attend the Paris Peace Conference, Millard warned that close attention had to be paid to the fact that the Japanese delegation included Prince Konoe Fumimaro, later three-time Prime Minister of Japan, who wrote the sensational and provocative anti-Anglo-American and anti-establishment essay "Reject the Anglo-American-Centered Peace". Millard not only had it translated and published in his journal, Millard's Review, but also wrote a rebuttal. The Japanese delegation also included John Russell Kennedy, "Japan's propaganda manager" and Millard's bête noire.

Millard and Korea
In November 1918, after a speech by Charles R. Crane in Shanghai advocating Woodrow Wilson's policies of self-determination for all nations, Korean nationalist Yuh Woon-Hyung (Yǒ Unhyǒng), then principal of a Korean School in Shanghai, and others drafted a petition calling for Korean independence from Japan, and requesting action at the upcoming Paris Peace Conference, which he gave both to Crane and also to Millard for personal transmission to Woodrow Wilson. Manela indicates thatAlthough Millard was sympathetic to the Korean cause and conceded that in principle Koreans were as entitled to self-determination as anyone, he thought there was little chance that the Korean case would actually come before the conference.

Millard and China
Millard was a Sinophile. In 1906 Millard "admitted to once holding an "adverse disposition" toward the Chinese but the more he became acquainted with them the more he developed "a sincere liking and admiration of the Chinese people." He recognized that one could not easily identify social characteristics with a race, but he considered the Chinese "industrious, reliable, law-abiding, good humored, capable, and tolerant."

Millard was an early supporter of the Chinese Nationalists and the Chinese revolution,  advocating through his writing a strong and independent China. Millard supported Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek "in the belief  that they would undertake policies that would cure China's ills."

Millard has been described as an Open Door Realist, advocating passionately the view that the Open Door Policy in China, which upheld Chinese territorial and administrative integrity and advocated no interference with the free use of the treaty ports within their spheres of influence in China, should be backed by American military force as necessary. For Millard, the Open Door Policy involved the establishment of an American economic protectorate over China. Soon after the armistice of 1918 Millard strongly urged the United States to take an active and leading part in the reconstruction of China. Millard warned that "our Eastern policy will not be respected until the world is convinced that failure to consider and meet our reasonable wishes carries a probability of war".

Millard on the relationship between China and the United States of America
According to Japanese historian Akira Iriye, "Outside the American government, one of the most vocal and persistent spokesmen for special ties between the United States and China was Thomas F. Millard". Millard professed to see "a genuine community of interests with China and the United States" and believed his views on China were "analogous to the views of a considerable portion of the American people." Millard influenced stronglyRalph Eldin Minger, William Howard Taft and United States Foreign Policy: The Apprenticeship Years, 1900–1908 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1975):168–169. and then supported the China policies of US President William Howard Taft (President 1909–1913), who indicated in a speech to the American Association at the Astor House, Shanghai on October 8, 1907, a year before his election as President of the United States, that he favoured the economic and political development of China:
The American Chinese trade is sufficiently great to require the Government of the United States to take every legitimate means to protect it against discrimination or injury by the political preference of any of its competitors. After the speech, Millard followed Taft to the rostrum and declared,We have a hopeful interest, through commerce, in the enormous, the almost incalculable material development which the application of modern western influence and methods to the teeming resources of China is sure to bring about. ... Am I going too far to declare that China and America need each other, that in some important matters their futures are inseparably linked?Millard, November 1907, quoted in Iriye, 224.

Millard sought to influence the foreign policy elite, and in this task he was helped by friends with influence and money, such as Willard Dickerman Straight (born January 31, 1880; died December 1, 1918), an American journalist who later served as a diplomat in China, Korea and Manchuria;  and Charles R. Crane, a wealthy confidante of American President Woodrow Wilson (President 1913–1921), who devoted his life to pushing the concept of a special US relationship with China and Asia. According to John Maxwell Hamilton, Millard was not opposed to enlarging American commerce in China, so long as that commerce helped the Chinese. He stridently criticized the [Shanghai American] Chamber of Commerce, bankers, and other Americans who resisted change in order to preserve United States business interests and imperial life styles in the foreign concessions. He called on the United States government, whose views he tried to shape, to adopt a policy of "felicitous aggressiveness," meaning it should become the prime force for helping China even if the effort required economic warfare against other powers.

Millard and Philippine independence
After an absence of many years, in 1925 Millard visited the Philippines where he wrote several articles for The New York Herald Tribune, where he opposed Philippine independence, and advocated the United States keep the Philippines permanently. Millard's reasons included:
1. the corruption of Filipino politicians from 1916–1921 under the Jones Act;
2. even if they should acquire self-governing capacity, "it is fallacious to presume that the right of self-government and the right of independence are identical."
3. the inability of an independent Philippines to maintain it against foreign aggression;
4. independence is advocated primarily by the political and industrial bosses who hoped to profit by the disposal of government land;
5. the immense value to the USA of the government lands in the Philippines.

Amplifying the fifth point, Millard argued that the increasing population of the United States would eventually necessitate the importation of food and raw materials from the Philippines:
"Great uncultivated and unused regions in the Philippines which are ideal for the production of rubber, hemp, jute, coffee, vegetable oils and fats, camphor and quinine, now are a part of the public domain of the United States and are owned by the American people."

Millard also added that the iron ore deposits were among the largest in Asia, and that the uncertain political future prevented capital investment in the Philippines.

Millard and Native Americans in the United States
In a 1903 article published in The Forum, Millard perceived the cultural assimilation and Americanization of Native Americans in the United States into the white race and lamented the seeming inevitability of their extinction.Thomas A. Britten, American Indians in World War I: At Home and at War (UNM Press, 1999):30.

Censorship of the Press
Millard frequently highlighted and decried censorship of war correspondents, including both Japan and Russia in the Russo-Japanese War. In his 1906 book, The New Far East, which included sections from a 1905 article, Millard wrote
Although the scene of hostilities was far away from Japan, a strict censorship was maintained during and even after the war on press despatches sent out of the country, and this censorship was by no means confined to purely military matters. Yet so prejudiced is a very large section of the English press that it was not uncommon to see the Russian censorship bitterly condemned and the Japanese praised in the same column. It should be clear to even commonplace intelligence that both censorships were maintained for the same purpose, and with the same justification (or lack of it), and my knowledge of both leads me to believe the Russian was the more liberal, notwithstanding strong reasons why the opposite should be true."

Japanese restrictions prevented foreign journalists from getting closer than 3 miles (5 kilometres) from the battles. "In the end Japanese censorship prevented the hordes of correspondents from witnessing most of the decisive battles. Censorship was strict because the Japanese suspected that many of foreign journalists were spies", with the result that "Many chafed under the censorship and departed for home." When the war shifted to Manchuria, Millard complained: "Screened by a military censorship which prevented as far as possible publicity concerning events in the country, except such as was given out at Tokyo." Millard indicated that even after the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War, "the Japanese continued to maintain a strict censorship upon communications leaving or entering Korea."

Again in 1905, Millard reported on censorship by American military authorities in the Philippines. Millard reported in Scribner's Magazine that military censorship in the Philippines was among the most strict anywhere. Millard rehearsed previous accusations against American General Elwell Stephen Otis (1838–1909) who provided misleading information to foreign correspondents and forced them to modify their reports of war crimes by American troops, resulting in the replacement of Otis in 1900.

When Millard started his The China Press in Shanghai in 1911, it was "registered in Delaware, to avoid censorship" by the Empire of China. As an American newspaper operating within the International Settlement, The China News was thus subject to American laws which protected the freedom of the press.

References

Further reading

Books and pamphlets by Millard

Articles and pamphlets by Millard
 1900 "With the Boer Army: Their Methods of Attack and Defence". Scribner's Magazine 27, pp. 677ff.
 1901  "Punishment and Revenge in China." Scribner's Magazine 29, pp. 187–94.
 1901 A Comparison of the Armies in China. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
 1901 "The Settlement in China." Scribner's Magazine 29 (March):872ff.
 1901 The Settlement in China. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
 1902 "General Christian de Wet". Scribner's Magazine 29 (May):547ff.
 1903 "The Passing of the American Indian" The Forum 34 (January):466-80.
 1904 "The Camera on the Firing-Line," Everybody's Magazine 10. pp 463ff.
 1904 "The Story of the Eastern Crisis." Harper's Weekly 48, pp. 295–302.
 1905 "New Features of War: As Illustrated in the East." Scribner's Magazine 37 (January):60–69.
 1905 "A War Correspondent and His Future." Scribner's Magazine 37 (February):242–248.
 1906 "The New China," Scribner's Magazine 39 (February):240-50.
 1908 "Fighting Moros not Assimilated," Chicago Daily Tribune (March 5, 1908):A-2.
 1909 The Barbarians: A Play in Four Acts. 1909 "Japanese Immigration Into Korea". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 34:2 (September):183–189.
 1910 "The Need of a Distinctive American Policy in China," pp. 92–94. In George H. Blakeslee, ed., China and the Far East. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
 1915 The Great War in the Far East: With Special Consideration of the Rights and Interests of China and the United States of America. Mercantile Printing Co.
 1916 "The Japanese Menace," The Century 91 (March):673—682.
 1919 "China's Case at the Peace Conference," The Century p. 797
 1921 The ABC's of the Hay Doctrine. (also published as The ABC`s of the Twenty-One Demands.) Shanghai: The Weekly Review of the Far East.
 1921 The ABC's of the Manchuria Question. The Weekly Review of the Far East.
 1921 China, America and International Financial Readjustment. Shanghai: The Weekly Review of the Far East.
 1921 Japan and the "Irrepressible Expansion" Doctrine. The Weekly Review of the Far East. 14pp.
 1921 The Shantung Case at the Conference. The Weekly Review of the Far East. 76pp.
 1926 "Indian Police in China". The Hindusthanee Student [Hindustan Association of America] 2:5 (1926):6.
 1928 "Pros and Cons of Intervention: What the Powers Must Face If Disorder in China Suggests a Coercive Policy". Asia: Journal of the American Asiatic Association 28, pp. 110–115.
 1932  America, Europe and the Manchuria Question. Geneva: Sonor. 17pp.

Books by Millard
 1905 The New Far East: An Examination into the New Position of Japan and Her Influence upon the Solution of the Far Eastern Question. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; London: Hodder & Stoughton (1906). Online:
 1909 America and the Far Eastern Question: An Examination of Modern Phases of the Far Eastern Question, New Activities and Policy of Japan, the United States of America to the Problems Involved. Moffat, Yard and Co.
 1916 Our Eastern Question: America's Contact with the Orient and the Trend of Relations with China and Japan. The Century Company. Online:
 1919 Democracy and the Eastern Question: The Problem of the Far East as Demonstrated By the Great War, and Its Relation to the United States of America. The Century Company. Online:
 1924 Conflict of Policies in Asia. The Century Company.
 1928 China: Where it is Today and Why. Harcourt, Brace and Company.
 1931 The End of Exterritoriality in China. Shanghai: A.B.C. Press.
 1973 Thomas F. Millard Correspondence [1906–22] with Charles Scribner's Sons". Princeton University Library, 1973. Unpublished work containing 61 letters.

Book edited by Millard
 1911 Millard, Thomas F., ed. Two Years in the Forbidden City by Princess Der Ling. [role as editor needs documentation; he wrote the foreword]

Further reading
 American University Club of Shanghai; and Richard Porter Butrick. American University Men in China. The Comacrib press, 1936
 Cavanaugh, Jerome, ed. Who's Who in China, 1918–1950: With an Index. Vol. 1. Chinese Materials Center, 1982.
 Chao, Thomas Ming-heng. The Foreign Press in China (Shanghai: China Institute of Pacific Relations, 1931).
 Crow, Carl. China Takes Her Place. Harper & Brothers, 1944.
 Desmond, Robert William. Crisis and Conflict: World News Reporting Between Two Wars, 1920–1940. University of Iowa Press, 1982.
 Desmond, Robert William. The Information Process: World News Reporting to the Twentieth Century. University of Iowa Press, 1978.
 Desmond, Robert William. Windows on the World: The Information Process in a Changing Society, 1900–1920. University of Iowa Press, 1980.
 Dillon, Nara and Jean Chun Oi. At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-building in Republican Shanghai. Stanford University Press, 2008.
 Farrar, Ronald T. A Creed for My Profession: Walter Williams, Journalist to the World. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998.
 French, Paul. Carl Crow: A Tough Old China Hand: The Life, Times, and Adventures of an American in Shanghai. Hong Kong University Press, 2007.
 French, Paul. Through the Looking Glass: Foreign Journalists in China, from the Opium Wars to Mao. Hong Kong University Press, 2009.
 Giles, Robert H., Robert W. Snyder, and Lisa DeLisle, eds. Covering China. Transaction Publishers, 2001.
 Hirobe, Izumi. Japanese Pride, American Prejudice: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act. Stanford University Press, 2001.
 Iriye, Akira. Pacific Estrangement: Japanese and American expansion, 1897–1911. Harvard University Press, 1972.
 Jackson, Bennett L. The Army and the Press: From the American Revolution Through World War I. University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1963.
 Knightley, Phillip. The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Propagandist from the Crimea to Kosovo. 2nd ed. Prion Books, 2001.
 McKee, Delber L. Chinese Exclusion Versus the Open Door Policy, 1900–1906: Clashes over China Policy in the Roosevelt Era. Wayne State University Press, 1977.
 Ma, John T. American Ideas in the Chinese Press. University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1948.
 MacKinnon, Stephen R., and Oris Friesen, eds. China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s Berkeley: University of California Press, c1987.
 Minger, Ralph Eldin. William Howard Taft and United States Foreign Policy: The Apprenticeship Years, 1900–1908. University of Illinois Press. 1975.
 O'Brien, Neil L. An American Editor in Early Revolutionary China: John William Powell and the China Weekly/Monthly Review. Routledge, New York, 2003.
 Player, Cyril Arthur. Arms—and the Men: Intimate Personal Glimpses of Delegates, Attachés, and Unofficial Personages at the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament and Pacific and Far Eastern Problems. Detroit: MI: The Detroit News, 1922.
 Powell, John B. My Twenty Five Years In China. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945. Online:
 Tong, Hollington Kong. Dateline: China: The Beginning of China's Press Relations with the World. Rockport Press, 1950.
 Varg, Paul A. The Making of a Myth: The United States and China, 1897–1912. Michigan State University Press, 1968.
 Weinberg, Steve. A Journalism of Humanity: A Candid History of the World's First Journalism School. University of Missouri Press, 2008.
 Who Was Who in America. Vol. 2. (Marquis Who's Who., 1950):372ff.
 Williams, Sara Lawrence Lockwood. Twenty Years of Education for Journalism: A History of the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A. The E.W. Stephens Publishing Company, 1929.
 Willoughby, Westel Woodbury. China at the Conference: A Report. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1922.
 Xu, Guoqi. China and the Great War: China's Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization''. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

1868 births
1942 deaths
American foreign policy writers
American male non-fiction writers
American male journalists
American newspaper editors
Missouri University of Science and Technology alumni
War correspondents of the Russo-Japanese War
Deaths from cancer in Washington (state)