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 20, 2012

To Bring Abdul Hamid Home.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 20, 1912:
Ex-Sultan Will Be Transferred Back to Constantinople.
    CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 19.— The transfer of ex-Sultan Abdul Hamed from the place where he has been confined in Salonika to Constantinople was sanctioned by the Sultan to-day after the Council of Ministers had decided on the step.
    Several efforts have been made to bring Abdul Hamid back since his deposition, on April 27, 1909, but these have always been frustrated.
    The former Sultan is said to be very ill, and the reason given for his transfer is that he will receive better medical attendance in the capital.
    The press regard his transfer now as inopportune.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Saturday, October 20, 2012

To Bring Abdul Hamid Home.

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