Richard Harding Davis Articles

Richard Harding Davis

on Wartime Lifeboat Drills

"Apparently those in each boat were selected by lot . . .The only other persons originally in my boat were Red Cross nurses of the Post unit and infants. In trampling upon them to safety I foresaw no difficulty.
"But at the dress rehearsal the purser added six dark and dangerous-looking Spaniards. It developed later that by profession they were bull-fighters. Any man who is not afraid of a bull is entitled to respect. But being cast adrift with six did not appeal.
"One could not help wondering what would happen if we ran out of provisions and the bull-fighters grew hungry. I tore up my ticket and planned to swim."

--"President Poincare Thanks America,"

The New York Times, November 6, 1916

1900 (cont'd)

The Last Days of Pretoria
Scribner's/October, 1900

1901

Along the East Coast of Africa
Scribner's/March, 1901

1902

The Gentle Art of Bull-Fighting
Scribner's/December, 1902

1904

Marking Time in Tokyo:
The Forty-Eighth Ronin
Collier's/May 21, 1904

1905

A War Correspondent's Kit
Scribner's/April, 1905

The Passing of San Juan Hill
Scribner's/August. 1905

1906

Who Owns the Isle of Pines?
Collier's/June 2, 1906

Winston Spencer Churchill
Collier's/July 28, 1906

Captain Philo Norton McGiffin
Collier's/September 8, 1906

Baron James Harden-Hickey
Collier's/October, 1906

General William Walker:
The King of the Filibusters
Collier's/October 10, 1906

The Army of Pacification
Collier's/November 3, 1906

Major Burnham. Chief of Scouts
Collier's/November 24, 1906

1907

The Coasters
Collier's/May 18, 1907

My Brother's Keeper
Collier's/June 15, 1907

The Capital of the Congo
Collier's July 13, 1907

Americans in the Congo
Collier's/July 20, 1907

Hunting the Hippo
Collier's/August 17, 1907

Old Calabar
Collier's/September 7, 1907

1911

The Invasion of England
Scribner's/December, 1911

1912

The Passing of the Maine
New York Tribune/April 7, 1912

The Two Conventions at Chicago
Scribner's/September, 1912

1914

Breaking Into the Movies

Scribner's/March, 1914

5 Regiments Start From Galveston Today
New York Tribune/April 24, 1914

Galveston Cheers as 5th Army Brigade
Sails for Vera Cruz
New York Tribune/April 25, 1914

Soldiers Relieve Navy
On Shore in Vera Cruz Today
New York Tribune/April 30, 1914

Vera Cruz Marvels at Khaki-Clad Men
New York Tribune/May 1, 1914

Davis Finds Huerta Men True to Type
New York Tribune/May 3, 1914

Cruiser Sails with Vera Cruz Dead
New York Tribune/May 4, 1914

Funston Plans to Avoid Famine
The New York Tribune/May 5, 1914

Mexicans Kill and Burn U.S. Soldier
New York Tribune/May 11, 1914

R.H. Davis Tells Story of
Arrest by Huerta's Police
New York Tribune/May 11, 1914

Baseball and Bullfights in Vera Cruz
New York Tribune/May 18, 1914

Half Funston Men Dead, Mexicans Say

New York Tribune/May 19, 1914

Huerta Doomed; Ex-Minister Flees

New York Tribune/May 19, 1914

Vera Cruz Bares Secrets to Airmen

New York Tribune/May 25, 1914

Mexicans Fire Volley on US Naval Aircraft

Soaring at Vera Cruz

New York Tribune/May 25, 1914

Anarchy Sure as U.S. Leaves Mexico

New York Tribune/May 30, 1914

Bold Tejar Marines Scorn to be Rescued

New York Tribune/May 31, 1914

Army Has Made New Vera Cruz

Boston Globe/June 9, 1914

Army at Vera Cruz

Marks Time Under the Portales

New York Tribune/June 14, 1914

R i c h a r d H a r d i n g D a v i s ( 1 8 6 4 - 1 9 1 6 )

1914 cont'd

When a War is Not a War
Scribner's/July, 1914

Navy Suffers in Loss of Gibbons
New York Tribune/July 12, 1914

The Lusitania. Taking Sporting Chance, Wins
New York Tribune/August 13, 1914

London Though Eager for News,
Gladly Yields to the Censor
New York Tribune/August 15, 1914

Davis Sure Germans Were Withdrawing
New York Tribune/August 20. 1914

Like a River of Steel it Flowed,
Gray and Ghostlike
New York Tribune/August 23, 1914

Germans Got Cold Cheer in Brussels
New York Tribune/August 25, 1914

Horrors of Louvain Told by Eyewitness;
Circled Burning City
New York Tribune/August 31, 1914

Germans Censor Notes of Envoys
New York Tribune/September 1, 1914

Tells Experience as War Prisoner
New York Tribune/September 2, 1914

Says Kaiser, Breaking Word, Tricked Czar
New York Tribune/September 4, 1914

Eight American Writers Arrested
New York Tribune/September 4, 1914

Paris Standing Strain of War Complacently
New York Tribune/September 15, 1914

Public Opinion Ends Aero Visits
New York Tribune/September 15, 1914

War Blights Neighborhood of Soissons
New York Tribune/September 17, 1914

Vivid Description of the
Shelling of Rheims Cathedral
New York Tribune/September 22, 1914

Rheims Cathedral Not Used by Army
New York Tribune/September 26, 1914

Rheims a Wreck Around Cathedral
New York Tribune/September 29, 1914

French Capital Sees Its Oldtime Activity
New York Tribune/October 3, 1914

The Germans in Brussels
Scribner's/November, 1914

The Appalling Waste of the European War
New York Tribune/November 1, 1914

"Under Fire"--By Richard Harding Davis
New York Tribune/November 8, 1914

Uncle Sam's Diplomats in War Zone
Do Him Honor
New York Tribune/November 15, 1914

War Correspondents' Fight for

Place in the Sun
New York Tribune/November 22, 1914

"To Be Treated as a Spy"

Scribners/December, 1914

1915

Rheims During the Bombardment
Scribner's/January, 1915

Wengler's "Two Shots"
New York Times/January 8, 1915

"They Can't Do That!"
New York Tribune/February 22, 1915

An Insult to War
New York Times/July 11, 1915

Richard Harding Davis Describes

Crime for Which Becker Must Die

St. Louis Globe-Democrat/July 25, 1915

Poincare Thanks America for Help
New York Times/November 6, 1915

'War as Usual' Motto of France
New York Times/November 16, 1915

Allies in Serbia Fighting in the Clouds
New York Times/December 9, 1915

Allies in Saloniki Preparing to Stay
New York Times/December 11, 1915

Arras, The Unburied City
New York Times/December 12, 1915

Americans Escape Safely From Gievgeli
New York Times/December 13, 1915

Allied Casualties in Retreat Given as 1,700
New York Times/December 15, 1915

Richard Harding Davis Dares Death

in the First Line Trenches

San Francisco Examiner/December 26, 1915

Luring Teutons on to Saloniki
New York Times/December 31, 1915

1916

Saloniki is Full of Enemy Spies

San Francisco Examiner/January 2, 1916

Allies' Grip on Food Keeps Greece Still
New York Times/January 12, 1916

War? Nobody Knows What It Really Is Until He Attempts to Travel Abroad

San Francisco Examiner/January 16, 1916

French Made Merry in Serbian Retreat
New York Times/January 19, 1916

A Deserted Command
New York Times/January 23, 1916

A Peep at the Famous St. Mihiel Salient
New York Times/February 6, 1916

The War That Lurks in the

Forest of the Vosges

New York Times/February 13, 1916

Blinded in Battle, But Not Made Useless
New York Times/February 27, 1916

Verdun's Traps and Mazes
New York Times/March 5, 1916

With the Allies in Salonika

Scribners/April, 1916

President Poincaré Thanks America
New York Times/November 6, 1916