The Daily Colonist, August 22, 1914
Fri, 2014/08/22 - 10:48am
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- 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: corpse robbing by soldiers, common people in Germany reduced to starvation.
- Canadian parliament trying to get war measures in place.
- Full-page ad for the new 1915 Maxwell "25" - "Holds the Road at 50 Miles an Hour"
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