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

Warships' Wireless Feat.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 19, 1912:
German Ships at Constantinople in Direct Communication with Home.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
BERLIN, Nov. 18.— A remarkable wireless feat is being performed by the German squadron at Constantinople in remaining in direct, unbroken communication with land stations in Germany, and with the flagship of the German fleet in the North Sea.
None other of the foreign warships in the Golden Horn are said to be able to duplicate this achievement, which is being proclaimed as proof of the superiority of the German wireless installations on shipboard.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, November 19, 2012

Warships' Wireless Feat.

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