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.

Monday, July 29, 2013

Huerta Heeds Our Demands.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 29, 1913:
Promises to Punish Dixon's Assailants and Free Captives.
    MEXICO CITY, July 28.— With assurances that so long as he is President the Mexican Government never will sanction outrages against American citizens, President Huerta to-day replied to representations made to him on behalf of the United States by Nelson O'Shaughnessy. Chargé d'Affaires of the American Embassy.
    Mr. O'Shaughnessy had presented to President Huerta the demands of his Government that the officers and soldiers responsible for the shooting of Charles B. Dixon, Immigration Inspector at Juarez, be arrested and punished. President Huerta willingly acceded to this demand, and also to a further demand that the detention by Mexicans of two Americans at Santa Rosalia be investigated.
    President Huerta assured Mr. O'Shaughnessy that those guilty of the shooting of Mr. Dixon would be punished and the Americans at Santa Rosalia would be released.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, July 29, 2013

Huerta Heeds Our Demands.

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