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 23, 2012

Turkish Gunboat Sunk.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 24, 1912:
Attacked by Greek Torpedo Boat, the Crew Opened the Stopcocks.
ATHENS, Nov. 23.— A Greek torpedo boat entered the harbor of Alvala today and attacked a Turkish gunboat there.
On the appearance of the Greeks the Turkish sailors abandoned the gunboat after opening the vessel's stopcocks. Greek marines went on board, but were unable to stop the inrush of water. They then blew up the gunboat with a torpedo.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Friday, November 23, 2012

Turkish Gunboat Sunk.

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