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The Daily Colonist, August 22, 1914

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#dailycolonist1914 - 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: 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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