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

Quite a big update today, lots of interesting things:

• Fighting in far-away and exotic Africa: border skirmishes between British South Africa and German Southwest Africa…

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

• Three British cruisers sunk by a German submarine in the North Sea, 1,460 dead.
• German use of electric searchlights detailed [which is another example of bizarre early…

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

• Fantastic photos to back up yesterday's story of a British bombing run over a German Zeppelin shed. [And note the aeroplanes! These aren't the Sopwith Camels (which didn…

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

• Canadian soldiers not sending money home to their families, steps taken to set up direct payment to spouses.
• American officers polled on the war, [and they completely…

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

The articles and ads that caught my eye today:

• Canadians keen to be dispatched to front [It's all fun and games until you lose and eye, and maybe half your face, and lie…

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

• British troops sent to assist Japanese in taking German territory in China
• Demonstrations in Italy in support of Britain
• Concern that war-time drop in fur trade will…

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

It's Sunday in 1914, and there are some interesting things in the paper and the magazine section today, both from a 1914 point of view and a 2014 point of view:

• [I'll…

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

• Aeroplane over Antwerp, "escaped in the direction of Wilryck" [The mention of Wilrijk makes this close to home for me: I stayed with my great-uncle and great-aunt in…

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

• Editorial summary covers what's going on in the war in Europe
• Diplomatic tensions between Germany and Italy becoming extremely strained
• White Star Line ship Megantic…