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, September 9, 2012

French In Morocco City.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 9, 1912:
Release Seven Prisoners and Put the Pretender to Flight.
PARIS, Sept. 8.— Dispatches reaching Casa Blanca by courier bring the news that Col. Magin, in command of a French column, entered Morocco City yesterday and liberated the seven Frenchmen who were held prisoners there.
Severe fighting followed, and the Pretender, El Hiba, fled.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, September 9, 2012

French In Morocco City.

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