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.

Friday, September 7, 2012

Go To Reinforce Managua.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 7, 1912:
Twelve Hundred Marines and Bluejackets March from Corinto.
    CORINTO, Nicaragua, Sept. 5.— (Delayed in Transmission.)— All of the 850 American marines, who arrived on the California, have left for Managua. The first battalion departed yesterday, and was followed to-day by the second battalion, and by 350 bluejackets from the cruiser Colorado.
    Some of these men will be used as guards .along the railroad, and the rest go to Managua to reinforce the American guard already in the capital for the protection of American lives and property.
    The revolution is losing ground, according to reports received from various points.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Friday, September 7, 2012

Go To Reinforce Managua.

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