Ladysmith

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

• News from the front,
• Afghanistan declares neutrality,
• British aviators bombing Zeppelin sheds in Belgium and the navy bombarding the coast of Belgium,
• Germans running low on resources,
• News of the internment of "alien enemies", and
• a few odd little things of a more local nature...

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

Quite a big update today, lots of interesting things...

News from Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today. 

• Instead of an image of the front page, I'm leading off with an article that a certain Mrs. Goethals will find amusing: "Mrs. Goethals Arrested".
• Fantastic stories of a second Zeppelin attack on Antwerp, dog-fights over Paris, and other aerial conflicts [remembering that most people around here may not have even seen an aeroplane yet].
• Russia has renamed St. Petersburg to Petrograd and asked other cities with German names to Russianize..
• Lots more...

The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today. As much as yesterday was a slow news day, today was a busy one. My selections are not a comprehensive account of what was interesting in today's paper....