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, November 29, 2012

Run On German Banks.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 29, 1912:
Alarm in East Prussia Causes Chancellor to Send Reassuring Message.
KOENIGSBERG, Nov. 28.— Telegraphic instructions to the Governor to make efforts to allay the alarm prevailing in the Province of East Prussia were received to-day from the Imperial Chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg.
In his dispatch the Chancellor declares that the alarming reports about war preparations on the German and Russian sides of the frontier are wholly groundless. No special military measures, he says, have been taken on the German side, and no news has been received about Russian military measures which would require Germany to take counter steps.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Run On German Banks.

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