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

• German lines, encroaching on Paris only a few days ago, have been pushed back beyond Rheims [Reims].
• 40,000 Canadians already or soon to be overseas.
• Germans not just…

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

News from the European fronts continues to be more of the same. The Germans are in retreat and the Austrians are in disarray. Most of the news is about the German push…

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

• Germans in retreat on all fronts, western, Russian and Chinese.
• Use of the pejorative "Hun" for the first time that I've noticed.
• Dramatic and interesting article on the…

#dailycolonist1914 - This is too good not to give its own post. In the summary of the fighting in Galicia (a province of the Austrio-Hungarian Empire) the paper makes an aside to characterize the Galician people, saying that anyone who has...

...lived…

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

The war reporting is frustratingly vague again: an advance here, a retreat there, nothing substantial and all of it happening on an abstract, unimaginable scale. German…

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

Once again the news from the Western and Russian fronts is sweeping in scope, vague, and doesn't really say anything. 

• House of Commons in London again debates loosening…

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

More of the same in Europe. A Belgian town recovered, German losses and advances in France, Russian advances, it is hard to keep track of what's going on. 

• Meanwhile, in…

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

News from the front is pretty sparse today. Fighting on the Western Front is spread over a large area with no notable developments. What's remarkable about today's paper…

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

There is a lot of the "usual" vague stories of troop movements and lists of casualties, lacking in detail because of censorship. The propaganda aimed to incense…

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

September 7 was Labour Day Monday in 1914 and there was no paper, and there will be no more Monday extra edition since it was clear toward the end of August that there…