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.

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Hold Britons As Spies.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 5, 1912:
Five Arrested at Prussian Baltic Port and Jailed at Kiel.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
BERLIN, Aug. 4.— Five Englishmen who arrived from Copenhagen in a pleasure yacht have been arrested at Eckernfoerde, a Prussian Baltic port, on suspicion of espionage while photographing a naval shooting stand.
They were taken to Kiel, where they were imprisoned to await trial.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Hold Britons As Spies.

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