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 11, 2012

In Peril In Liberia.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 11, 1912:
Lives of Europeans Threatened — Two German Gunboats There.
COLOGNE, Dec. 10.— The lives of Europeans along the River Sestos in Liberia are threatened by Liberian soldiers, according to a dispatch to the Cologne Gazette from Monrovia. It adds that the Europeans are preparing to leave the country.
The German gunboat Panther is lying at anchor before the town of Sestos, and the German gunboat Eber is off Monrovia.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

In Peril In Liberia.

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