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 16, 2012

Germany Buys Dirigible.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 16, 1912:
Army Purchases Great Siemens-Schuckert Non-Rigid Airship.
BERLIN, July 15.— The German army authorities to-day completed the purchase of the Siemens-Schuckert dirigible balloon, the greatest non-rigid airship in the world.
It has a speed of over forty-three miles an hour, and is to he used for military purposes.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, July 16, 2012

Germany Buys Dirigible.

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