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

• Germans advance in Belgium, demand $40,000,000 "tax" from Belgium.
• Belgian refugees reaching London, tales of long columns of German wounded.
• List of Belgian cities involved in the war, with populations and fortification status.
• Russian troops advancing in Austria
• More anti-German propaganda...

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
• ...

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

• Unanimous vote in parliament to support Imperial war effort
• Pope Pious X dies, apparently "greif-stricken" by the war
• Cowichan farmers allowed to sell "second rate" fruit...

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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