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.

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Ship Escapes Air Bombs.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 30, 1913:
Aviator Under Fire in Attack on Mexican Gunboat Tampico.
    AT THE FRONT, ABOVE GUAYMAS, Mexico. July 28 (Delayed In transmission.)— Didier Masson, from his big biplane, dropped bombs this afternoon around the gunboat Tampico, lying in Guaymas Harbor. Four bombs were dropped, one striking within a few feet of the Federal gunboat. This probably gave rise to the report that the boat had been struck.
    The French aviator operated under heavy fire as he circled over the town and the bay, but returned unharmed.
    The Southern Pacific of Mexico Railway being operated by the insurgents as far as San Blas.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Ship Escapes Air Bombs.

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