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, March 5, 2013

French 3-Year Army Term.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 5, 1913:
Measure Unanimously Decided Upon by the Supreme War Council.
PARIS, March 4.— The Supreme War Council, presided over by President Poincaré, to-day pronounced unanimously for three years' military service without exemptions as the only means of assuring national defense.
This decision was reached after a long and exhaustive examination of the military situation.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

French 3-Year Army Term.

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