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Bass (JOHN FOSTER American war)

JOHN FOSTER, American war correspondent, born in Chicago, 1866; graduated at Harvard University, He respondent during the Cretan insurrection (1895); traversed the country where the Armenian massacres took place (1896); was at the front in the Greek war of 1898, and in the Spanish- American war of the same year. was in China during the Boxer rebellion in 1900, and was for several months with Kuroki's army in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904. During the World War he followed the Russian campaigns of 1914-1915, was on the French and Balkan fronts 1915-1917, and covered the Italian military operations in 1918.

BASS A B C A. Striped Bass. B. Black Bass. C. Rock Bass.

BASSANO (bäs-ä'no), a commercial city of north Italy, province of Vicenza, on the Brenta. It has lofty old walls, an old castle, various industries, and an active trade. Near Bassano, Sept. 8, 1796, Bonaparte defeated the Austrians.

Pop. about 20,000.

BASSEIN. (1) A thriving town in Burma, India, capital of a district of the same name, on the left bank of the Bassein river, one of the mouths of the Irawadi, 90 miles from the sea, but accessible to the largest ships. It is an important center of the rice trade, has considerable trade with Madras, and in a military view also is important, as it completely commands the navigation of BASSES-ALPES the stream. It was captured by the British in 1852. Pop. about 40,000. The district of Bassein has an area of 4,127 square miles, and a pop. of about 500,000. (2) Bassein, a decayed town of about 10,000 inhabitants, 28 miles N. of Bombay. Ceded to the Portuguese in 1534, it was a place of much importance as late as 1720; its remains still point to former splendor. In 1765 it was wrested from the Portuguese by the Mahrattas, and in 1780 surrendered to the British, after a 12 days' siege.

BASSES-ALPES BASSES-ALPES (bäs-älp), (Lower Alps). See ALPES, BASSES.

BASSES-PYRÉNÉES (bäs-për-nā'), (Lower Pyrénées). See PYRÉNÉES, BASSES.