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

• Chancellor of Exchequer proposes increased taxes to parliament in London, including doubling the income tax [so much for that old myth that income tax was "invented" to…

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

• Founder and proprietor of the Victoria Times, William Templeman, dies suddenly. There is a large picture on the front page and the lead headline is basically a lengthy…

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

• [Any former students of Lord Roberts Elementary in Vancouver will find this interesting] Lord Frederick Roberts dies of pneumonia while inspecting Indian troops in…

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

News from the Canadian camp on Salisbury Plain that I almost missed yesterday:

• Forces are banned from corresponding directly or indirectly with press
• Hailstorm…

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

• Heavy fighting on the Western Front reported. Allied forces have retaken Dixmude. Report also includes story of some pretty ballsy French soldiers that crept out at…

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

Another slow news day. On the one hand there are reports that the Germans are completely unable to advance on Allied Anglo-French troops on the Western Front, that…

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

Not much substantial about the war that I can see today. Not much news at all, really.

• Praise for the Australian navy from New Zealand and Canada
• Broughton Strait (the…

#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 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

Big Sunday paper update today. Lots of interesting things: war news, 100 year-old technology, amazing illustrations and advertisements, and more...

• Map of the current…

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

The headline news stories have the Germans and the allies in losing ground on all fronts. To believe things at face value one would think the war likely to be over by…