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 3, 2013

Naval Secrets Stolen.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 3, 1913:
Details of Important French Invention Published Abroad.
TOULON, May 2.— There is consternation in naval circles here over the publication in a foreign review of the full technical details of an invention to which the greatest importance attaches. A prominent naval officer had been engaged in secretly perfecting the invention here during the last few months.
It is said that the leaking out of the secret details, coincides with the stay of a foreign officer in Toulon. The Maritime Prefect has ordered a strict inquiry into the affair.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Friday, May 3, 2013

Naval Secrets Stolen.

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