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.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

The Fastest Dirigible.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 23, 1912:
German War Department Buys the Latest Zeppelin Airship.
BERLIN, July 23.— The latest military airship of the Zeppelin rigid type was taken over by the War Department to-day after an endurance and speed trial lasting eighteen hours.
The airship developed a speed of forty-nine miles an hour and is considered the fastest dirigible in the world. It has been named the "Z III," and is to be stationed at the Fortress of Metz, near the French frontier.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

The Fastest Dirigible.

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