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

• Inquest reveals hospital ship Rohilla that floundered off the Yorkshire coast on the night before Hallowe'en (reported on Hallowe'en) struck a mine and was intentionally…

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

News from the European fronts seems like more of the same, today [although some of it is hard to read because of a bad scan, I may have missed something interesting]…

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

• The Ottoman Empire is in the war. Britain bombards forts in the Dardanelles and takes the Red Sea port of Akaba [Aqaba]. Control of the Dardanelles would allow…