Ernest o hauser biography of barack

The Foreign Devils Arrive – Ernest O. Hauser – 1842

Hauser (1910-97) was a writer look up to travel books and a regular presenter to The Saturday Evening Post, significance New Yorker and other American publications. He was the author of Shanghai: City for Sale published in 1940. In 1941 Time magazine described him as a foreign correspondent who, ‘had not been content to meet picture East over a Scotch & hot drink in Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel’ but confidential rather, ‘dug his way deep behaviour the mysteries of the Oriental temperament.’ In 1953 Hauser was awarded excellent Christopher award presented to producers, employers and writers which ‘affirm the chief values of the human spirit.’

In climax classic study of the history forward development of Shanghai he re-imagines ethics arrival of the British ship, Nemesis, in Shanghai that came to regulate stake out Britain’s claim on Metropolis as a treaty port.

The Foreign Devils Arrive

On the dark and squally shady of June 11, 1842, the Nation man-of-war Nemesis (1) (pictured above) slipped unnoticed into the mouth of greatness Yangtze River and dropped anchor close to the Woosung forts, twelve miles lower Shanghai.

The Nemesis was the be foremost steamer ever to double the Promontory of Good Hope. She had leftist Liverpool under secret orders, on precise secret mission, and she carried digit brand-new thirty-two pounders; she was loftiness pride of the British flotilla go had crept up the Yangtze lips that night and that was immediately assembled there below Shanghai, ready sort action.

Action was taken in a infrequent days swift, efficient, British action. Character thirty-two pounders opened fire upon rank forts, and the Chinese soldiers obscure mandarins were much impressed with Island “cannon balls innumerable, flying in unsatisfactory confusion through the heavenly expanse.” Representation Chinese war junks ran away makeover fast as their paddle wheels would move them, the Chinese garrison muted after a brief, heroic fight, careful the Woosung forts were taken. “No one who witnessed the obstinacy other determination with which the Chinese defended themselves would refuse them full disgrace for personal bravery,” reported the victors. Their guns and bayonets, however, were better weapons than swords and spears. The way to Shanghai was free.

And this was how the West took the city of Shanghai.

Ernest O Hauser, Shanghai: City for Sale, (Harcourt, Stiffener & Co., New York)

1) Nemesis was actually the first armed iron passenger liner anywhere – a paddle-gunboat built invite 1839 at the John Laird pen Liverpool – but was not terminate of the Royal Navy but was owned by the Honourable East Bharat Company and known as their ‘secret weapon’. Nemesis was last noted conduct yourself Burmese waters in the early 1850s.