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, February 11, 2013

Rebels Hold Up Trains.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 11, 1913:
Rail Communication May Be Cut Off in Mexico Several Days.
    LAREDO, Tex., Feb. 10.— Passengers in a through train from Mexico to-day reported having been stopped three times by rebels. None of the travelers was robbed.
    In San Luis Potosi, Saltillo, Monterey, Tampico, and Torreon, there had been no insurrecto outbreaks up to noon. It was said there would be no rail communication out of Mexico for several days. The federal telegraph system was re-established to-day.
    The United States Post Office contemplates holding up regular and registered mail for a day or so.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, February 11, 2013

Rebels Hold Up Trains.

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