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, August 6, 2012

Germans To Shell Agadir?

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 6, 1912:
Report That Cruiser Will Bombard Port Owing to Murder There.
RABAT, Morocco, Aug. 5.— A German cruiser has, according to a rumor here, been ordered to bombard Agadir, in consequence of the recent murder of a German representing the firm of Mannesmann, which carries on extensive business there.
Hamid el Hiba, a former pretender to the Moroccan throne, has installed himself in that district as Sultan.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, August 6, 2012

Germans To Shell Agadir?

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