#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.
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 - 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…
#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…
