#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years (plus two days) ago today:

• Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden [that's the guy on the $100 bill] addresses the Canadian and Empire clubs of Toronto. Vows to stand with Britain and…

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

• Photo and biographical essay on the new Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, Mr. Frank S. Barnard, long-time resident of Victoria.
• Price of Wales [future King Edward…

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

• King George V visits the front, walks in trenches with front-line soldiers.
• Italy has announced that they are definitely, for-sure, not doing anything until they decide…

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

• On the eastern front, the Austrian army takes Belgrade, capital of Servia [Serbia] (remember how this war started...)
• Dispatches from Russia have the Germans in retreat…

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

• First, a retraction. The American Belgian Relief Commission says that rumours that Germans are taxing flour brought in to Belgium are false.
• An officer being belittled by…

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

• King George braves a stormy crossing of the Channel to visit the general headquarters of the British expeditionary force
• German troops being massed near Ypres [this is…

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

• Big map of the Russian front centred around Warsaw on the first page.
• Germans are taxing flour sent from the United States as relief for Belgians, and
• in the same article…

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

• German prisoners of war held on the Isle of Man riot, serveral are shot. Coroner's jury finds that shooting was justified. 
• An article with a headline about was loans…

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

Today it is not the battles in Europe and elsewhere that make the most interesting news. Today is about propaganda, technology, accidents and speculation:

• An article…

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

• Germans are reported to be using some kind of "silent cannon" that makes no noise when fired, that in areas where trenches are very close troops are talking back and…