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 4, 2013

Will Fight With Dynamite.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 4, 1913:
Maderistas Waiting in the Hills for Huerta Soldiers.
CANANEA, Sonora, March 3.— Two hundred and fifty Maderista rebels in the hills surrounding Cananea to-night are waiting to oppose Federal reinforcements for the garrison. One hundred and fifty Huerta soldiers arrived late to-day from Naco.
The Maderistas have thrown up fortifications at Buena Vista and Pueblo Nuevo, and possess one cannon. They have been making dynamite hand grenades for the last few days.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, March 4, 2013

Will Fight With Dynamite.

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