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, March 18, 2013

French-Moorish Battle.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 18, 1913:
Tribesmen Defeated After 5 Hours' Fighting — French Lose 14 Killed.
RABAT, Morocco, March 17.— A French column on the way to revictual Col. Magnier's forces in the Ouedzem region was recently attacked by a band of tribesmen. The escorting detachment engaged the tribesmen in a fierce battle and beat them off after five hours' hard fighting, with heavy losses to the natives.
The French lost fourteen killed and thirty-five wounded.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, March 18, 2013

French-Moorish Battle.

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