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.

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Still Pounding Scutari.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 13, 1913:
Montenegrins Continue to Bombard the Turkish Fortress.
    VIENNA, April 12.— The candidacy of Prince William of Sweden, second son of King Gustave, for the Albanian throne, is favored by the Triple Alliance, according to the Neue Freie Presse.
    Dispatches from Cattaro, the seaport of Montenegro, say that since yesterday Scutari has been subjected to a severe bombardment by the Montenegrin besiegers.

    ATHENS, April 11.— A body of Turks, coming from the coast of Asia Minor yesterday, massacred the Christians among the inhabitants of Kasteloryzo, southeast of Rhodes, according to dispatches received here.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Still Pounding Scutari.

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