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

Nicaragua Leader Taken.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 5, 1912:
Gen. Mena, Head of the Revolution, Said to be a Prisoner.
    LA LIBERTAD, Salvador, Aug. 4.— News of the conflict in Nicaragua between President Diaz and the revolutionists, headed by Gen. Mena, ex-Minister of War, came to-day by steamer which left San Juan Del Sur three days ago.
    The report is that hostilities followed the action of Diaz in appointing Emiliano Chamorro commander in chief of the Government forces. Mena, it is rumored, has been taken prisoner.
    The United States warship Annapolis has arrived at San Juan Del Sur and is being held there awaiting developments.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Nicaragua Leader Taken.

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