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.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

German Dentist A Spy.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 26, 1913:
Resident of Portsmouth Is Sent Prison for Five Years.
WINCHESTER, June 25. — William Klare, a German dentist, residing at Portsmouth, was found guilty at the Assizes here to-day of espionage at Portsmouth, England's chief naval station. He was sentenced to five years' penal servitude.
Torpedoes and submarines, it was shown at the trial, were the special subjects of Klare's observations.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

German Dentist A Spy.

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