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.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Madrid Hails Alfonso's Return.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 12, 1913:
MADRID, May 11.— The Spanish people, proud of King Alfonso's personal popularity in France, greeted the sovereign on his return this morning from Paris with unusual enthusiasm. Women strewed flowers in the King's path between the station and the palace. All the Government and diplomatic dignitaries gathered at the station, and the Queen and the Queen Mother were there also to witness the King's safe return.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Madrid Hails Alfonso's Return.

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