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

• Suspected spies escape from Ottawa to the United States
• Notice received that aviator Earl Annelsley of County Down [North] Ireland was shot down and killed by Germans over Ostend.
• Canada to produce a large volume of munitions for Allied Countries
• Conflicting reports of Russian actions near Lodz, central Poland...
• Japanese have announced they will not be turning captured German territory in China over to China...
• Army base a Petewawa is being converted to a concentration camp for enemy aliens, who will be put to work clearing brush and building roads.

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

• Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden [the guy on the $100 bill] addresses members of the Canadian Club of Montréal in two speeches...
• Strange little article on the number of Jews in the German army...
• A more detailed report on Sir Robert Borden's speeches in Montréal...
• A notice on the back page that "All Subjects of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire" must register by December 31 or be liable to arrest as a prisoner of war.

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years (plus two days) ago today:

• Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden [that's the guy on the $100 bill] addresses the Canadian and Empire clubs of Toronto...
• An interesting article detailing the current methods of trench warfare.
• Full-page war technology feature in the magazine section is on aerial combat.
• The usual excellent round-up of the week's events in the children's section...