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, December 3, 2012

Japanese Cabinet Crisis.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 3, 1912:
War Minister Quits Because He Cannot Get Army Enlarged.
    TOKIO, Dec. 2.— Lieut. Gen. Uyehera, the Minister of War, tendered his resignation to the Emperor to-day owing to the refusal of the other members of the Cabinet to accede to his demand for the increase of the army by two divisions.
    It is feared that the collapse of the Saionji Cabinet is imminent owing to the difficulty of finding a successor to Gen. Uyehera.
    There is a consensus of opinion here against military expansion, but Gen. Uyehera's programme admitted of no compromise.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, December 3, 2012

Japanese Cabinet Crisis.

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