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.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Plot To Establish Republic.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 18, 1912:
Mahmoud Shevket Said to Have Been Designated as President.
LONDON, Monday, Nov. 18.— A sensation was caused Sunday by the discovery of a plot by the Young Turks to establish a republic under Mahmoud Shevket Pasha, who successfully planned the revolution which overthrew Abdul Hamid, says a Constantinople dispatch to The Chronicle. It was intended to execute a coup d'etat in a day or two.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Plot To Establish Republic.

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