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

• Nothing really new in the European theatre...
• In more exotic locales, there is news, however: British forces taken the port city of Basra and a British advance has been repulsed by Germans in German East Africa.
• A report of a secret movement for an armistice at Christmas...
• Ten million cigarettes donated...
• Story of a British raid on a German Zeppelin factory is, rather interestingly, reported from both the British and German perspectives.
• One of the cable station operators on Fanning Island recounts the German attack on the trans-Pacific cable station early in the war.

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

• Details of the German cutting of the trans-Pacific cable at Fanning Island emerge as the ship dispatched to fix cable arrives in British Columbia
• Map of Antwerp's defences [Wilrijk is directly between the forts marked F6 and F7 on this map.]

http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1914

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

• German retreats
• Germans capture trans-Pacific cable relay station
• 1916 Olympics likely to be cancelled
• Ads that caught my eye