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.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Americans in Fear of Shells.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 7, 1913:
GUAYMAS, Sonora, Mexico, March 6.— Grave anxiety among the 350 American residents of this seaport was aroused today by reports that the Federal Government was to send the gunboat Guerrero up the coast to shell the town. Urgent representations are being made to delay the United States cruiser Colorado, which arrived here Tuesday night, but is scheduled to leave to-morrow night.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Americans in Fear of Shells.

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