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.

Saturday, May 11, 2013

To Fly For Large Prizes.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 11, 1913:
German Contest Will Be Started from Wiesbaden To-morrow.
    BERLIN, May 10.— The Prince Henry aviation contest will start from Wiesbaden to-morrow, with thirty-two officer pilots contending, together with several amateurs.
    The Emperor, Prince Henry, the Bavarian Prince Regent, and several Grand Dukes have offered special prizes. In addition, there will be cash prizes to the amount of 70,000 marks ($17,500).
    The route is as follows: Sunday, Wiesbaden to Cassel; Monday. Cassel to Coblenz; Tuesday, rest; Wednesday, Coblenz to Carlsruhe; Thursday, rest; Friday, Carlsruhe to Strassburg; Saturday, Strassburg to Freiburg and return. Several reconnoitring trips are included in the programme.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Saturday, May 11, 2013

To Fly For Large Prizes.

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