The Daily Colonist, October 24, 1914
Fri, 2014/10/24 - 8:19am
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- Headline "Little Ground Gained or Lost" sums up progress on the Western front. However, the article includes story of a foiled attempt to lead a British ammunition convoy into an ambush that is rather interesting.
- More praise for British troops from India, this time from the Italian foreign office in Berlin, who also go on to condemn "French black troops from Senegal" as "bloodthirsty".
- Two Sikhs arrested in Vancouver for "conspiring to procure persons to murder other persons".
- German aeroplanes chased away from Paris by French aeroplanes.
- Germans have developed a way to launch torpedoes from Zeppelins and plan to use the new technology in naval attacks on the North Sea.
- Details of the shoot-out with Sedro-Woolley bank robbers.
- Further negotiations to secure preferential lumber trade with Australia.
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