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

• Inquest reveals hospital ship Rohilla that floundered off the Yorkshire coast on the night before Hallowe'en (reported on Hallowe'en) struck a mine and was intentionally…

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

• The Ottoman Empire is in the war. Britain bombards forts in the Dardanelles and takes the Red Sea port of Akaba [Aqaba]. Control of the Dardanelles would allow…

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

• Front page map of Kiao-Chau Bay [ Jiaozhou Bay / 胶州湾 ] and area around Tsing-Tau [ Qingdao / 青岛 ]. German fort expected to fall soon.
• North Sea officially closed to…

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

• Map of the current lines of the Western front on the front page.
• [Hidden on the 3rd page, so insignificant at the time that the article cuts off in mid-sentence, the…

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

Today starts out with a suitably macabre story for Hallowe'en:

• Dateline Whitby, North Yorkshire: a hospital ship runs aground off the Yorkshire coast, as many as 100 dead…

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

• Troops from India featured in photographs on the front page
• British navy fully equipped, no need for additional volunteers for naval service at this point.
• Estimated three…

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

• Conspirators in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife sentenced. Killer gets 20 years. Four conspirators get death sentence. So since this is what…

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

• Front page has pre-war pictures of French city of Lille, now all but leveled by the war.
• Telegraph restrictions lightened. Messages may now be sent using any of several…

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

It's difficult to tell what is important on the European fronts today. The Germans are still failing to advance on along the coast of Belgium and France. The…