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, November 30, 2012

36,000 Beside Scutari.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 30, 1912:
Practically All of Montenegro's Army Concentrate for Attack.
    RIEKA, Montenegro, Nov. 29.— King Nicholas will move his headquarters tomorrow to Bruda, near Scutari, and will direct vigorous operations against the beleagured fortress in person.
    Practically the entire army, totaling 36,000, has been concentrated for an attempt to force the Turks to surrender. The Turks have made several sorties, but all have been repulsed.
    A Turkish deserter from Scutari says the distress among the besieged is terrible.
    King Nicholas to-day had a conference with the Austrian Minister and other members of the Diplomatic Corps. It is believed that the Austro-Servian difficulty will be settled amicably.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Friday, November 30, 2012

36,000 Beside Scutari.

No comments:

Post a Comment