#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

• Big map of the Russian front centred around Warsaw on the first page.
• Germans are taxing flour sent from the United States as relief for Belgians, and
• in the same article…

#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

At this point in 1914 the war is 3½ months old and virtually no one has any idea that there will be another four full years of absolute horror to come. Remember that we…

#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

News from the European fronts seems like more of the same, today [although some of it is hard to read because of a bad scan, I may have missed something interesting]…

#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

• Antwerp has fallen to the Germans. Front page has pictures the cathedral and Steen Castle [both of which I have been to], also a German Howitzer and a Zeppelin. 
• London…

#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

Things are downright horrible in Antwerp now. Fighting is back behind the second line of forts [which means the Germans have and advanced beyond where my grandparents…

#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

• Japanese capture of the Marshall Islands [A German protectorate at the time] causes concern, particularly in the United States, over Japan exceeding its treaty…

#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

• Details of the German cutting of the trans-Pacific cable at Fanning Island emerge as the ship dispatched to fix cable arrives in British Columbia
• Map of Antwerp's…

#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

Antwerp is the big news today. The Germans have been attacking the outer defences for days now. Refugees from surrounding villages have been streaming into the city and…