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.

Thursday, August 15, 2013

New French Army Plan.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 15, 1913:
Troops to be Concentrated on Eastern Border — Navy to Guard Coast.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    PARIS, Friday, Aug. 15.— The Matin this morning announces that the French Government has just decided to leave to the Navy the task of defending the coast and to concentrate all the land forces at Eastern frontier points.
    The change is to be made progressively, beginning at Cherbourg next January.
    Marines will take the place of the army artillery now stationed at the ports.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Thursday, August 15, 2013

New French Army Plan.

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