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

The Fleet Must Wait.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 3, 1913:
No Chance of Sending It Through the Canal This Year.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
PANAMA, May 2.— A report cabled from Washington to the effect that work would be rushed on the canal so as to send the fleet through by June has been received here with ridicule.
It is said that there will be no chance to send ships through the canal before the first of the year, and probably not until later.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Friday, May 3, 2013

The Fleet Must Wait.

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