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

A lot of interesting stuff in the paper "today" and I am a bit late getting this up.

• Front page feature map of "Extreme Left in Western Theatre" where the Germans are…

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

• Headline "Little Ground Gained or Lost" sums up progress on the Western front. However, the article includes story of a foiled attempt to lead a British ammunition…

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

Heavy fighting continues on both fronts. Line on the Western front are largely unchanged. On the Eastern front Germans have been repulsed from Warsaw by Russians.

• Indian…

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

• Panoramic view of River Aisne
• Germans planning aerial raid on London. London preparing.
• Evidence that Germans had been laying foundations for gun emplacements near Dunkirk…

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

German attempts to advance along the coast of Belgium toward the English Channel continue to not go well. Serbians have taken forts in Sarajevo (and even though that's…

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

• German advance toward French ports on the English Channel still stymied. 
• Hundreds of thousands of Belgian refugees in England and Netherlands. Those still in Belgium…

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

• Map showing current lines of the Western front. All of Belgium except for a tiny corner around Ypres is in German hands.
• Summary of the current state of the war: Germans…

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

• Large photos of Plymouth harbour, where Canadian troops are arriving
• Belgian Queen Elizabeth staying with her husband King Albert at the front, called "an example of…

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

• Estimated the 150,000 Belgian refugees are now in England
• German reconnaissance aeroplane downed over Ostend. "Allies are becoming skilled in winging aeroplanes."
• It is…

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

Lead news is about how well protected French ports such as Calais are, but it comes off as hollow propaganda after the fall of Antwerp, one of the best fortified cities…