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, July 26, 2012

Want Yuan As Dictator.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 26, 1912:
Military Commanders In Peking Threaten to Coerce The Assembly.
PEKING, July 25.— The military commmanders in Peking held a meeting to-day at which they resolved to urge President Yuan Shi-Kai to insist that the Assembly approve his selection of members of the Cabinet. Otherwise, the commanders declare, they will assume control of affairs personally.
This action tends toward a personal dictatorship of Yuan Shi-Kai, supported by the military, which has been expected for some time.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Want Yuan As Dictator.

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