A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Australia Opposes Rebate Plan.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 19, 1912:
MELBOURNE, July 18.— The House of Representatives to-day unanimously adopted a motion setting forth that "in the opinion of this House any system providing for a bonus or a rebate of canal dues to American shipping using the Panama Canal would be detrimental to the interests of Australia." Premier Fisher said he hoped that the matter would be amicably settled by the Governments of the United States and Great Britain.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Australia Opposes Rebate Plan.

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