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.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Greeks Are Welcomed.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 19, 1912:
Occupy Kassandra Peninsula, Expelling Turkish Officials.
    ATHENS, Nov. 18.—Major Zachos sends the following telegram:
    "After landing at Kassandra, (50 miles south of Salonika,) I expelled the Turkish authorities and hoisted the Greek flag over a dozen villages of the peninsula. The Inhabitants were wild with joy.
    "I am marching toward the villages beyond the Kassandra Peninsula, and have occupied the towns of Poligyros and Savdos."

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, November 19, 2012

Greeks Are Welcomed.

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