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

Will Let Greece Fight Alone.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 4, 1912:
    SOFIA, Dec. 3.— It is stated here that, Greece not being a party to the armistice, she will be left to continue the war alone against Turkey if she so desires.
    It is asserted that the representatives of the allied Balkan nations have acceded to the request of the Turks that the peace negotiations take place in London.
    King Ferdinand at Kirk-Kilisseh on Dec. 1 received Gen. Vaver Pasha, the commander of the Turkish column which was captured near Dedeagratch. The King returned his sword to Vaver Pasha and told him that he could reside where he chose in Bulgaria. The Turkish commander chose Sofia.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Will Let Greece Fight Alone.

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