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, January 27, 2013

Our Gunboat Unwelcome.

New York Times 100 years ago today, January 27, 1913:
Cold Reception Awaits the Wheeling, Which Arrives at Vera Cruz.
VERA CRUZ, Jan. 26.— The United States gunboat Wheeling, which was ordered to proceed to Vera Cruz by the American Government because of reports of alarming conditions in this section, arrived here at 10 o'clock this morning from Tampa. Official visits will be exchanged to-morrow, but it is certain that the reception of the Americans will be cold, as Mexicans are not particularly pleased at the visit of an American warship.
At present the situation in and around Vera Cruz is quiet.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Our Gunboat Unwelcome.

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