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, December 23, 2012

Djavid Pasha Killed.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 23, 1912:
Severe Fighting at Yanina — Turkish Warships Make a Sortie.
    CONSTANTINOPLE, Monday. Dec. 23. — The fighting before Yanina is reported to be very severe.
    Djavid Pasha, Commander of the Seventh Army Corps, who joined Essad Pasha with the remnant of the Monastir forces, has been killed, as also has his Chief of Staff.
    The arrival of reinforcements from Yanina yesterday changed the fortune of the Turks, who drove the Greeks back in the direction of Loros.
    The losses on both sides were heavy.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Djavid Pasha Killed.

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