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.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Czarevitch May Be Cripple.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 5, 1912:
It Is Not Certain That He Will Recover the Use of His Left Leg.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Thursday, Dec. 5.— The Daily Mail's St. Petersburg correspondent wires:
    "The Czarevitch is still bedridden at Tsarskoe-Selo. A doctor is in continual attendance. An apparatus for the support of the left thigh and leg is being made for the journey to Gagry, on the Black Sea coast, on which the doctors insist.
    "It is not yet certain whether the heir to all the Russias will ever recover the use of his left leg."

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Czarevitch May Be Cripple.

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