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.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Mexicans Seize American.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 30, 1913:
Government Holds Him Incommunicado — Ambassador Protests.
MEXICO CITY, April 29.— An American, William B. Wofford, foreman of the Santa Rosa plantation, near Ojitlan, in Oaxaca, has been seized by what at first was thought to be a newly organised band of rebels from Southern Vera Cruz.
The American Ambassador was informed of the capture of Wofford and made representations to the Foreign Office requesting the Government to withdraw an order holding him incommunicado.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Mexicans Seize American.

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