Tue, 2014/08/26 - 8:52am
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...
Thu, 2014/08/21 - 8:17am
News from Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.
- Germans enter Brussels unopposed, with Belgian army retreating to defend Antwerp.
- Japanese demand that Germans vacate Tsing-Tau. Germany has two more days to reply to Japanese ultimatums.
- Editorial on the Japanese ultimatum and German territory in China
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Tue, 2014/08/19 - 8:21am
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:
- Fighting in nearby Waterloo forces Belgian government to abandon Brussels and move to Antwerp [where my maternal grandparents are living at the time, children of 10 and 14].
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Thu, 2014/08/14 - 12:05pm
News from Victoria 100 years ago today:
- A little reminder that some things have changed in a century: a German spy is caught releasing a carrier pigeon on a train from Antwerp.
- The "500 young men" mentioned in Great Big Sea's 1997 song "The Recruiting Sergeant" sign up in Newfoundland.
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Thu, 2014/08/07 - 7:30am
#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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Sun, 2006/08/13 - 9:02pm
My mother sent me an e-mail of stories and pictures from a website detailing the V-bomb attacks on Antwerp late in World War II.
Imagine this: you are a fourteen year-old girl. It's a couple weeks before Christmas and all your friends want to go to town to see the new movie. They want you to come too. You say you can't afford it and want to save the money for Christmas. They plead with you and try to get you to come along and won't take "no" for an answer. You have a hard time convincing them (and yourself) that you don't want to come, but eventually they give up trying to drag you along and go without you.
The cinema gets hit by a bomb and all your friends die.
That's one of my mother's stories. This is the cinema:
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The Rex Cinema, Antwerp, Belgium. December 1944.
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