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, August 13, 2013

Japan Bars Diaz Mission.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 13, 1913:
General Instructed by Huerta Not to Sail for Tokio.
    TOKIO, Japan, Aug. 12.— The Japanese Government intimated to-day to the Mexican Government that it would not receive Gen. Felix Diaz as special envoy to Japan to express the thanks of Mexico for Japanese participation in the Mexican Centennial.
    At the same time it announced that it would receive Gen. Diaz only as a private individual.

Huerta Fails to Answer Rebuff.
    MEXICO CITY, Aug. 12.— The Huerta Government was silent to-day with regard to the notice issued by the Japanese Government that Gen. Felix Diaz would not be received, as Mexico's special envoy to thank Japan for having participated in the Mexican centennial, except that it was said a statement concerning the incident might be issued tomorrow.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Japan Bars Diaz Mission.

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