The Daily Colonist

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

• Headlines and pictures of more troops dispatched from Victoria and Vancouver.
• Japan and Austria officially at war.
• First reporting of trench warfare...

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today. Once again, the most interesting stuff is not in the headlines, but in the a couple of tiny "filler" stories...

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today. Today's paper is the Monday "extra", and today's very slim. The first two pages have new news, but because that only represents one half of a full sheet of newsprint, the last to pages are all filler. Page three is made up completely of reprinted articles and the last page is another reprint of the map of Europe. But that first half-sheet is has a lot of content...

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today. August 23 was a Sunday, so this is the big Sunday paper with a pull-out section, but the really interesting stuff today is not the top headlines or the pull-out magazine articles, but several of the minor articles....

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...

News from Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

• Germans enter Brussels unopposed, with Belgian army retreating to defend Antwerp.
• Japanese demand that Germans vacate Tsing-Tau. Germany has two more days to reply to Japanese ultimatums.
• Editorial on the Japanese ultimatum and German territory in China
• ...

The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

• Unanimous vote in parliament to support Imperial war effort
• Pope Pious X dies, apparently "greif-stricken" by the war
• Cowichan farmers allowed to sell "second rate" fruit...

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

• Fighting in nearby Waterloo forces Belgian government to abandon Brussels and move to Antwerp [where my maternal grandparents are living at the time, children of 10 and 14].
• ...

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

• Dire news! Canadian tea supply down to a mere 3-week supply.
• Story of French aviators from yesterday's paper reprinted. Reported altitudes are different.
• Man loses four fingers on his right hand in construction of Hudson's Bay store on Douglas Street.
• Not-so-subtle vilification of Germans continues...

The news from Victoria 100 years ago today:

• Great story on French aerial bombing of German Zeppelin shed.
• Analysis of the role of torpedoes and submarines as the most dangerous weapons of modern war...