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 21, 2013

Italians Rout Arabs.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 21, 1913:
Lose Twenty Killed and 222 Wounded in Ettangi Engagement.
    ROME, June 20.— A severe battle fought between the Italian troops and the Tripolitan Arabs at Ettangi yesterday cost the lives of one Italian officer and nineteen soldiers, while five officers and 217 men were wounded.
    According to an official dispatch from Derna, Gen. Salsa surprised a native camp, and hard fighting ensued, lasting an hour.
    The Arabs, he reports, were completely routed. Their losses are unknown.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Friday, June 21, 2013

Italians Rout Arabs.

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