Victoria

News from Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

• Germans enter Brussels unopposed, with Belgian army retreating to defend Antwerp.
• Japanese demand that Germans vacate Tsing-Tau. Germany has two more days to reply to Japanese ultimatums.
• Editorial on the Japanese ultimatum and German territory in China
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The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

• Unanimous vote in parliament to support Imperial war effort
• Pope Pious X dies, apparently "greif-stricken" by the war
• Cowichan farmers allowed to sell "second rate" fruit...

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

• Fighting in nearby Waterloo forces Belgian government to abandon Brussels and move to Antwerp [where my maternal grandparents are living at the time, children of 10 and 14].
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News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

• Dire news! Canadian tea supply down to a mere 3-week supply.
• Story of French aviators from yesterday's paper reprinted. Reported altitudes are different.
• Man loses four fingers on his right hand in construction of Hudson's Bay store on Douglas Street.
• Not-so-subtle vilification of Germans continues...

The news from Victoria 100 years ago today:

• Great story on French aerial bombing of German Zeppelin shed.
• Analysis of the role of torpedoes and submarines as the most dangerous weapons of modern war...

News out of Victoria 100 years ago today:

• Panama Canal officially open (dateline Aug. 15)
• Full-page retrospective on the War of 1812 in the Sunday pull-out
• Great illustration of "A Garden-Party Frock" in the women's section Sunday pull-out
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News out of Victoria 100 years ago today:

• Germany now fighting on two fronts.
• Both Japan and Turkey expected to make formal declarations of war soon (the latter against Britain and the former with Britain).
• "L.O.L. Public Meeting" - in 1914 L.O.L. meant "Loyal Orange Lodge"...

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. 
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News from Victoria 100 years ago today:

• Map of the European war zone on the front page
• Great editorial about how the Colonist will not print and will not pay the Associated Press for unverified, sensational stories, which goes on to pan the American press...

News out of Victoria 100 years ago today:

• "Blood Indians" [Kainai] offer money and man-power to serve the British Empire
• $40,000 ear-marked for expansion of Victoria drill-hall
• South Wellington destroyed by fire
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