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, February 10, 2013

Trevino May Be President.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 10, 1913:
Rebels at El Paso Tell Alleged Details of Plot.
EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 9.— Rebel agents here said to-day that the Mexico City mutiny was part of a general revolutionary plan, prematurely exploded. They connect it directly with the programme of Gen. Trevino, former Federal commander in the State of Nuevo Leon, and a military favorite of the Diaz regime. They say the date for a general revolt of the army had been set for March 11, and had practically all revolutionary factions in the republic in league with the movement.
In order to hold the army Gen. Trevino is to be named Provisional President, says Ricardo Gomez Robelo, Orozco agent. To this the rebels have agreed, if a national election in a reasonable time be guaranteed.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Trevino May Be President.

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