The Daily Colonist, September 15, 1914

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

• Germans in retreat on all fronts, western, Russian and Chinese.
• Use of the pejorative "Hun" for the first time that I've noticed.
• Dramatic and interesting article on the Germans capturing and cutting off the cable relay station on Fanning Island in the mid-Pacific, cutting direct communication between Canada and New Zealand & Australia. [Fanning Island was an uninhabited coral atoll used by the British for a relay station for an underwater cable between Bamfield (here written as "Banfield", which was the original name, but everyone on the island always said and spelled it wrong so at some point someone gave up and changed the spelling officially) and Fiji, and on to Australia and New Zealand. Part of the British "All Red Line" (illustration attached after the ads) which was a global cable network connecting all points in the Empire via British-controlled areas only, which were traditionally represented in red on maps, thus the nickname. The system had multiple redundancies and even with Fanning Island cut off, note that the article specifies that "business from Great Britain and elsewhere is being dispatched by the Eastern route."]
• 1916 Olympic Games, set to be in Berlin, very likely to be canceled. [They were of course, with Berlin not getting the Games until 1936 where the Nazi propagandists introduced the torch relay to emphasize their Aryan agenda as the rightful torch-bearers of Western Civilisation.]
• A selection of ads that caught my eye.

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