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, May 19, 2013

Heavy Fighting in Tripoli.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 19, 1913:
BENGHAZI, Tripoli, May 18.— Italians and Arabs suffered severe losses in a recent engagement at Sidi Garba. Gen. Ganbretti, commanding the Italian forces at Derna, stormed an intrenched camp of Arabs and after a stiff fight drove them out. The Italians had hardly established their positions when they were vigorously attacked on both flanks. They again repulsed the enemy. Details of the casualties have not been received.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Heavy Fighting in Tripoli.

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