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.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Montenegro Fears War.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 7, 1912:
Fighting with Turkish Troops on the Border Goes on Continually.
    CETTINJE. Aug. 6.— Frontier fighting between small guerrilla bands and Turkish troops has been going on continually since yesterday morning.
    The cordon of troops on the Montenegrin frontier was ordered to retire and adopt a defensive policy. The Turks crossed the frontier, but retreated again when the Montenegrins opened fire with their artillery.
    Great excitement prevails here, and dangerous complications are feared.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Montenegro Fears War.

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