The Daily Colonist, September 5, 1914

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

• Top news it that the British Army is now nearing 500,000 men and growing.
• Russian are advancing quickly through Austria
• Speculation about the damaged German gun ships arriving at Kiel. 
• British Columbia to contribute 1.2 million pounds of canned salmon [much, if not all, of which would have been canned in the Steveston cannery] to the war effort
• First hint since the war actually started that this will be a long war of attrition and that the loser will be whoever runs out of men to put through the meat grinder first (remembering that on July 31, the British Foreign Minister was overhead predicting the war could last 20 years)
• Less subtle than the propaganda of the past few days, there is an article stating the U.S. President Wilson should call out the German Kaiser on whether he intends to honour treaties. America is also singled out as "the only neutral great power except Italy left outside the orbit of war".
• And on the propaganda front, a creepy trio or articles:
  • on the front page an article stating that Muslim Turks have been ordered to pray for the Austrian and German armies, "believed to be the first time on record that Moslems have offered prayers on behalf of Christians",
  • then on the second-to-last page, an article of about German atrocities immediately followed by a short story, dateline Petrograd [St. Petersburg] about Turkish troop movements where "Many Christians have refused to join" and have been forcibly conscripted.
• Closer to home, the steam heat in the new additions to the Parliament Buildings in Victoria has been turned on for the fist time and is "giving the best of satisfaction."
• Pretty illustrations from a couple of ads for fall fashions.

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