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

• The first Canadian troops are now in France, waiting to move up to the front.
• More news from the aerial/naval raid on Cuxhaven, Germany. "British Airmen Wrecked Super…

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

• More reports from the naval/aerial raid on Cuxhaven, Germany.
• 7,394 alien enemies registered in Montréal alone. 450 interned in Petewawa, "converting some of the…

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

• Headline reports "Christmas Day Battle Fierce" but the article has no official reports of Christmas Day battles other than the combined aerial/naval raid already…

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

Absolutely nothing about the unofficial cease-fires that were strongly implied to have been already arranged in stories reported on the 24th, including the Prince of…

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

• Looking on the bright side for Christmas Day by focussing on the 100th anniversary of the end of the War of 1812, "Century of Peace Is Being Celebrated" between the…

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

• King of Belgium makes a Christmas dispatch from the front with his troops praising the Belgian army and thanking Americans for their relief work in occupied Belgium.
• The…

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

• News from all fronts is along the same lines as usual—heavy fighting with no appreciable gains or losses. Summary includes the Western Front, Russian and Eastern…

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

• A couple of big headlines about the European fronts, but this pretty much sums it up, "The day of December 20 brought nothing of importance...." Snow and cold is…

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

• Pictures of the Scandinavian kings that held a conference in Sweden to align their foreign policies and an article about the conference and it's significance to…

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

[The freaking-out over the German shelling of three English coastal cities is now over, and the news has returned to "normal". The news from the western front is the…