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.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

King's Slayer A Suicide.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 7, 1913:
Schinas, Assassin of George of Greece, Jumps Out of a Window.
    ATHENS, May 6.— Aleko Schinas, who assassinated King George of Greece on March 18 at Salonika, committed suicide this morning by flinging himself out of a window of the police station in that city.
    Schinas, who was a native of the town of Volo, Thessaly, killed the King by firing point-blank into his back while he was walking in the streets of Salonika accompanied by an aid-decamp. Me gave as an explanation of the crime that in 1911, he had applied for assistance at the King's palace and had been driven away by an aid-decamp.
    A few days ago the doctors examined Schinas and afterward announced that he was suffering from tuberculosis.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

King's Slayer A Suicide.

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