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.

Monday, June 24, 2013

Fleet’s Voyage Put Ahead.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 24, 1913:
Will Start on Mediterranean Cruise In November — Return In February.
Special to The New York Times.
WASHINGTON, June 23.— It was announced to-day at the Navy Department that the Atlantic fleet will sail on the contemplated Mediterranean cruise in November, instead of December, as heretofore planned. The fleet will stop at Gibraltar and all the principal ports of the Mediterranean. In February the fleet will return to Guantanamo for Winter battle and target practice.
As far as possible crews will have shore leave wherever the fleet is anchored.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, June 24, 2013

Fleet’s Voyage Put Ahead.

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