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 5, 2013

Yuan Wants To Retire.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 5, 1913:
But While He Is China's President Let Conspirators Beware.
PEKING, May 4.— President Tuan Shih-Kai has issued a manifesto warning the people that although he has refrained up to the present from employing military force against plotters in the hope that conspiracies would cease, in the future he will not permit conspirators to stir up trouble.
He expresses the hope that after the next Presidential election he will be relieved from the cares of office.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Yuan Wants To Retire.

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