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.

Friday, June 28, 2013

Canal Gates Firm.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 28, 1913:
Water at Sea Level at Gatun and Full Pressure On.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
PANAMA, June 27. — The Atlantic waters which have been allowed to run slowly against the lower gates at Gatun reached sea level this afternoon. The large gates are being put to the actual test of full pressure for the first time.
The engineers are watching the rise of the water with interest, and they report that the gates are watertight. The water is at the 50-foot stage.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Friday, June 28, 2013

Canal Gates Firm.

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