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.

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Queen Wants To Go To War.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 13, 1912:
Helena of Italy, Daughter of King Nicholas, Watching Anxiously.
ROME, Oct. 12.— The stand of Montenegro in the Balkan situation has caused great enthusiasm here. Some volunteers have crossed the Adriatic Sea to join in the fighting against the Turks.
Queen Helena, daughter of King Nicholas of Montenegro, is following events in her mother country with anxiety. She is reported to have said that she regretted that her position as Queen of Italy prevented her being at her father's side on the battlefield.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Queen Wants To Go To War.

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