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, April 8, 2013

Zeppelin Secrets Safe.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 8, 1913:
Germans Don't Believe French Could Reproduce Mechanism.
BERLIN, April 7.— German army officers who were on board the Zeppelin air cruiser Z-IV, when she was captured by French officers after crossing the French frontier and landing at Luneville are of the opinion that the Frenchmen did not discover any of the secret workings of the aircraft.
The German officers in their report say that, although Gen. Hirschaner, Inspector of the French Aviation Department, and other experts boarded the dirigible, they think the Frenchmen did not observe enough to enable them to reproduce the intricate mechanism of the airship. Some members of the Zeppelin crew say that they heard shots fired at the dirigible, but this is not confirmed by other persons on board.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, April 8, 2013

Zeppelin Secrets Safe.

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