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

• How the various kings and emperors are planning to spend Christmas, [which]
• [debunks the myth of the spontaneous Christmas Truce of 1914]
• Some rather silly local news from Victoria, and
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyles conspiracy theory about the Komagata Maru.

The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

• A summary of the state of all fronts,
• Invention of a bullet designed to down Zeppelins [by the perpetrator of the most famous anthropological hoax of all time],
• Outraged Protestants,
• German-American terrorists, and
• A suspicious train collision in Poland.

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...

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

• A conference of kings.
• Canadians deployed,
• News from all fronts,
• News from Duncan and the Cowichan Valley,
• An insight in the persecutions of "enemy aliens", and
• Editorials and in-depth articles recapping the causes of the war and the predicament and valour of Belgium.
• ...plus some ads that I liked...