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, September 11, 2012

Mikado To Entertain Knox.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 11, 1912:
Secretary of State and His Wife to Lunch with Emperor To-day.
    TOKIO, Sept. 10— Philander C. Knox. the Special Ambassador of the United Stares to the funeral of the late Emperor, and Mrs. Knox will be received in audience to-morrow morning by Emperor Yoshihito and the Empress, after which the American Secretary of State and his wife will take luncheon with their Majesties.
    In the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Knox will pay a visit to the room in which the body of Emperor Mutsuhito is lying in state.
    Charles Page Bryan, the American Ambassador to Japan, gave a luncheon in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Knox to-day. Among the guests present were Viscount Uchida, the Minister for Foreign Affairs; Baron Kuríno, the Japanese Ambassador to France; several other Japanese statesmen, and all the members of the American party.
    A return dinner was given by Mr. and Mrs. Knox this evening.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Mikado To Entertain Knox.

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