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

Not much new to fill out the Sunday edition today. 

• A more in-depth report of the British attack on the German naval fortress of Heligoland that was first reported yesterday
• A two page map of Europe, presumably filler.
• Some news on troop movements into northwest France
• News that more Canadians will be shipping out, and calls for more volunteers
• More German atrocities tossed in here and there
• Interesting advice for men regarding "Mercenary Girlfriends" in the Sunday pull-out.
• Really interesting casual mention of how the Vikings "discovered America centuries before Columbus" - remembering that this paper is from 1914 and L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland was not discovered until 1960.

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

• British ships battle Germans in the North Sea.
• First Canadian troops, Princess Patricia Light Infantry, leave for overseas from Montréal on White Star Line liner S.S. Megantic.
• Force of 5000 Germans overwhelms 700 British troops, survivors accuse Germans of using machine guns mouted on Red Cross wagons.
• Town of Malines [Mechelen], half way between Brussels and Antwerp, bombarded with heavy artillery by Germans.
• Germans reportedly blame friendly-fire incident on locals in reduce town of Louvain to ashes to as a cover-up.
• Coquitlam football team accused of cheating.

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

• More troops shipping out of Victoria and Vancouver
• Fears that Antwerp Zeppelin attack may be repeated over London
• Full page of photos of volunteers shipping out
• British press trying to get war-time censorship relaxed

So the power went out on Sunday evening thanks to a telephone pole rotting (It's worth noting that Vancouver is, as far as I know, the only major city that still uses above-ground wiring on wooden posts downtown). So what are a couple of crusty old goths to do?

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

• Lots of drum-beating, flag-waving stories about troops dispatching from Victoria and Vancouver
• Speculation about Turkey [Ottoman Empire] joining the war
• British holding their line, German defeats, Russian and Serbian victories
• Great little article that in summary says "our propaganda is truth, Germany's propaganda is all bizarre lies."
• Some interesting ads...

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

• Headlines and pictures of more troops dispatched from Victoria and Vancouver.
• Japan and Austria officially at war.
• First reporting of trench warfare...

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today. Once again, the most interesting stuff is not in the headlines, but in the a couple of tiny "filler" stories...

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today. Today's paper is the Monday "extra", and today's very slim. The first two pages have new news, but because that only represents one half of a full sheet of newsprint, the last to pages are all filler. Page three is made up completely of reprinted articles and the last page is another reprint of the map of Europe. But that first half-sheet is has a lot of content...

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today. August 23 was a Sunday, so this is the big Sunday paper with a pull-out section, but the really interesting stuff today is not the top headlines or the pull-out magazine articles, but several of the minor articles....