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.

Sunday, December 2, 2012

King Directs Scutari Siege.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 2, 1912:
Montenegrin Monarch Takes Personal Charge of Operations.
    RIEKA, Montenegro, Dec. 1.— King Nicholas, accompanied by the Crown Prince, arrived at Staff Headquarters at Gruda yesterday.
    The King made a stirring address to the troops, and afterward visited the positions and gave orders for the disposition of the attacking forces. The heavy guns bombarded Scutari for two hours in the afternoon, and many shells fell in the middle of the town.
    The attack was resumed to-day, the King directing personally.
    The Bulgarian Minister to Montenegro and the Bulgarian General Paprikoff arrived at Gruda to-day and had a long conference with King Nicholas.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, December 2, 2012

King Directs Scutari Siege.

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