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.

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Greece Seizes Mytilene.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 22, 1912:
Troops Landed — Turkish Garrison Retires Into the Interior.
    CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 21.— It is reported that a Greek squadron has landed troops and taken possession of the Island of Mytilene.
    The Greek commander invited the Turkish Governor aboard the flagship and demanded the surrender of the island within two hours. The Governor asked time to consider, and the commander refused his request.
    Troops were landed, but they met with no resistance, the weak Turkish garrison retiring into the interior.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Greece Seizes Mytilene.

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