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#dailycolonist1915 #WWI - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago.

I am, at last, caught up to exactly 100 years ago. The beginning of November 1915 has the British using gas for the first time, fighting in Bulgaria, King George V recovering from an accident at the front, the defeat of women's suffrage in the United States, new innovations in aerial warfare, and a new Japanese emperor, among other news.

#dailycolonist1915 #WWI - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:

Drug runners, whalers, pirates, propaganda, protests, Zeppelin attacks, giant telescopes, darkest Africa, Hallowe'en haunted houses, murder and atrocities are just a few of the things I've picked out from October 1915.

#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:

#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:

• Saturday, February 20, 1915
  • [On the build-up to WWII] Japanese territorial demands alarm the Chinese government.
  • A couple of rental ads for homes in Victoria and farm-land in and around the area.
  • Large, quarter-page ad for the first Victoria showing of the new Dodge Brothers motor car [1915 was the first year Dodge, founded in 1900 and up to this point just a parts manufacturer for other companies, made their own vehicle].

     

#dailycolonist1915 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:

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
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