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

• Map of the Russian front featured prominently on the front page, but most of the stories are about Antwerp.
• "Antwerp Gets Usual Orders" - food to be provided to Germans…

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

Most of the news is the dénouement for the fall of Antwerp. The stories conflict. Generally it seems that the Belgian army sabotaged their own forts before retreating so…

#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:

Even the paper is bored of the lack of substantive news from the Western front, "War Summary on Usual Line" reads the headline, so naturally the paper is full of…

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

• Half page ad for subscriptions. [Note the phone number for subscriptions: 12. Interestingly the "general inquiry" line listed on the front page is 11... a number they…

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

• Tale of arrest and detention as a possible spy of UBC librarian on book-buying journey during the outbreak of the war.
• Absolutely accurate method for converting…

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

• Germans advancing on Antwerp, two of the outer forts have fallen. 
• Survey of the conditions of colonies on the west coast and northern areas of Vancouver Island…

#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…