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.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Chinese Troops Kill 1,000.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 23, 1912:
Family of Prince and Princess Un-Ai Are Among the Murdered.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 22.— Atrocities, committed by Chinese expeditionary troops in Mongolia, are reported in Harbin dispatches. After plundering and burning several monasteries the troops massacred 1,000 Mongolians and mutilated the bodies of men and children.
Prince and Princess Un-Ai made their escape with great difficulty, but all the members of their family were murdered.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Chinese Troops Kill 1,000.

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