"…You have hands free for, in our readers' service, to move as you believe more convenient. My instructions are: accuracy, interest and speed...". With these words the director of ABC, Torcuato Luca de Tena, sent the journalist Antonio Aizpeitúa to cover the war in Europe. The Spanish reporter would probably become the first journalist in sending a chronicle from a submarine. It was the autumn of 1914 and Europe burned in the war. Germany had invaded Belgium and what would be a quick offensive had stagnated in a fight of trenches that maintained at edges the public opinion. On the other hand, at the same time that Spain declared its neutrality, the sympathies of the society were distributed between the central powers and the allies. ABC sought to be an impartial newspaper, and for that reason its director made a wide unfolding of correspondents and special correspondents for multitude of European cities: Julio Camba, Azorín, Juan Pujol and Antonio Aizpeitúa, among other many, filled pages and pages to cover the conflict. KEY WORDS First World War, Submarines.
1 de marzo de 1915: El submarino “U-8” alemán sale a flote. (Archivo de ABC) CRÓNICAS DESDE UN SUBMARINO
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