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.

Friday, July 27, 2012

Chinese Assembly Cowed.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 27, 1912:
Confirms Yuan's Nominees for Cabinet Under Military Pressure.
    PEKING, July 26.— The Chinese Assembly to-day acceded to the demand of the military commanders in Peking who insisted that it approve the selection of Cabinet Ministers made by President Yuan Shi-Kai.
    The commanders declared that unless this were done they would assume the control of affairs, and it was thought that this would lead to a personal dictatorship of Yuan Shi-Kai, supported by the military.
    At to-day's meeting of the Assembly a vote was taken on Yuan Shi-Kai's nominees for Cabinet officers, and with one exception the list was approved.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Friday, July 27, 2012

Chinese Assembly Cowed.

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