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.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Adrianople To Surrender?

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 4, 1912:
Report That Commander Has Offered to Discuss Terms.
LONDON, Wednesday, Dec. 4.— A Sofia dispatch to the Exchange Telegram Company says that the Turkish commander at Adrianople has asked for the presence of Bulgarian delegates in order to discuss terms for the capitulation of the beleaguered town.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Adrianople To Surrender?

No comments:

Post a Comment