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 14, 2012

Thousands Now In Jail In Portugal.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 14, 1912:
Convents and Monasteries Are Turned Into Prisons for the Royalists.
ANOTHER INVASION PLANNED
More Plots Discovered — Brazil Reported to Have Offered Asylum to Refugees Now In Spain.
    LISBON, Aug. 13, (Via the Frontier.)— The authorities continue to discover fresh Monarchist plots against the Government.
    Thousands of persons have been arrested, and the convents and monasteries have been converted into prisons.
    It is stated that Brazil has made an offer to the Spanish Government to provide an asylum for the Royalist refugees now in Spain, and that the Portuguese Monarchists consequently will make Rio Janeiro their headquarters.
    The Royalists are reported to be planning another attempt to enter Portugal by sea.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Thousands Now In Jail In Portugal.

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