#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…

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

• Map of the Russian front featured prominently on the front page, but most of the stories are about Antwerp.
• "Antwerp Gets Usual Orders" - food to be provided to Germans…

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

Most of the news is the dénouement for the fall of Antwerp. The stories conflict. Generally it seems that the Belgian army sabotaged their own forts before retreating so…

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

• Antwerp has fallen to the Germans. Front page has pictures the cathedral and Steen Castle [both of which I have been to], also a German Howitzer and a Zeppelin. 
• London…

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

Things are downright horrible in Antwerp now. Fighting is back behind the second line of forts [which means the Germans have and advanced beyond where my grandparents…