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 12, 2012

Will Protect Americans.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 12, 1912:
    WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.— The European powers most intimately concerned is the Balkan situation have undertaken to extend projection to Americans in Turkey.
    The American Embassies in Europe were intrusted, when informing the various nations of the decision of the United States to send the cruisers Tennessee and Montana to the coast of Asiatic Turkey, to inquire whether provision had been made or was contemplated in the interest of American citizens in Turkey. Replies indicate that instructions issued by Great Britain and Russia anticipated the desires of the American Government.
    The cutter Unagala was to-day instructed to wait at Port Said for orders from Ambassador Rockhill at Constantinople.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, November 12, 2012

Will Protect Americans.

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