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News out of Victoria 100 years ago today:

• "Blood Indians" [Kainai] offer money and man-power to serve the British Empire
• $40,000 ear-marked for expansion of Victoria drill-hall
• South Wellington destroyed by fire
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#dailycolonist1914 - News from Victoria, 100 years ago today:

• Warnings that large battles are imminent.
• Chronology of the war so far printed 
• Italy backing out of alliance with Germany and Austria, trying to remain neutral.
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#dailycolonist1914 - News from Victoria 100 years ago today:

• Japan has dispatched ships. Japanese immigrants in Vancouver agree to support Canada and the British Empire.
• The Ottoman Empire masses troops off the border of Bulgaria.
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#dailycolonist1914 - This was a Sunday edition.

• British expeditionary forces arrive in Belgium.
• German and Austria threaten to declare war on Italy is they remain neutral (I could not help but head Zap Brannigan's voice when reading this.)
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#dailycolonist1914 - News from Victoria 100 years ago today:

• Mostly flag waving and propaganda today, very little news of substance
• Maharajah of Nepal offers his army to British service, "The majority of his troops are of the Gurkha tribe, the most famous soldiers in India."
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#dailycolonist1914

"Today's" news out of Victoria 100 years ago has some interesting tidbits:

• Belgians down one of Germany's largest Zeppelins using "an especially designed gun for aircraft."
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#dailycolonist1914
News out of Victoria 100 years ago today: 
- Field Marshal Lord Kitchener is appointed Britain's Secretary of War. This is the guy Berlin, Ontario was renamed after.
- Fighting in Belgium. German troops are repulsed by the Belgian army,
- Anti-German riots and vandalism in Antwerp
- The demonization of Germans continues with reporting of a Zeppelin attack in France "in violation of the rules of civilized warfare".

News out of Victoria 100 years ago:
- The paper is full of drum-beating patriotism. Almost every article is about Canadians lining up across the country to serve the Empire. 
- Attached here is a little programme on just who's who in the war: