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

Passes German Army Bill.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 30, 1913:
Minister Tells Reichstag Committee Recruits Can Be Obtained.
BERLIN, April 29.— The bill increasing the peace footing of the German Army by approximately 168,000 men and bringing the total up to about 806,000, excluding officers, was voted today by the committee of the Imperial Parliament after Gen. von Heeringen, the War Minister, had succeeded in convincing the members that the necessary number of recruits was available.
The only negative votes were cast by the Socialist and Alsatian Deputies.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Passes German Army Bill.

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