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, June 7, 2013

Ship Damaged By A Greek Mine.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 7, 1913:
ATHENS, June 6.— The Belgian steamer Kurland from Antwerp struck a mine near the Island of Phleva, in the Gulf of Athens, this morning. She was seriously damaged and had to be towed to Phalerum and beached.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Friday, June 7, 2013

Ship Damaged By A Greek Mine.

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