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

Turks In Mutiny, Sofia Hears.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 18, 1912:
News of the Spread of Cholera Causes Great Concern.
    SOFIA, Nov. 17.— It is six days since any official news has been published from army headquarters. There are many rumors that fighting is proceeding along the Tchatalja lines.
    A report through Bulgarian channels says that a number of Turkish officers and soldiers, on duty at the palace of Yildiz Kiosk, when ordered to proceed to Tchatalja, refused, declaring that further fighting was useless. Several of the officers were arrested, but the mutinous conduct of the troops continues.
    The news of the spread of the cholera at the Tchatalja lines has caused great anxiety here.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Turks In Mutiny, Sofia Hears.

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