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.

Friday, May 10, 2013

German Aviator Missing.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 10, 1913:
His Balloon Last Seen in a Storm on the Baltic Sea.
KOENIGSBERG, May 9.— A German military spherical balloon, the Cassiopeia, which ascended from this city on Wednesday, is missing with its passengers. It was last seen in the neighborhood of Pillau, about twenty-five miles from here, traversing the Frischen-Ehrung Peninsula in a storm.
It was under the command of Capt. von Webeser of the Second Balloon Battalion stationed here.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Friday, May 10, 2013

German Aviator Missing.

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