The Daily Colonist, August 14, 1914
Thu, 2014/08/14 - 12:05pm
« previous next »#dailycolonist1914 - News from Victoria 100 years ago today:
- A little reminder that some things have changed in a century: a German spy is caught releasing a carrier pigeon on a train from Antwerp.
- The "500 young men" mentioned in Great Big Sea's 1997 song "The Recruiting Sergeant" sign up in Newfoundland.
- German government is shooting socialists and pacifists
- German soldiers reportedly don't have any idea what the war is about
- San Francisco Examiner newspaper violates American neutrality by providing information to Germans
- French bravery lauded
- Huge, long list of locals that have contributed money to the war effort
