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#dailycolonist1914 - News from Victoria 100 years ago today:

  • Japan has dispatched ships. Japanese immigrants in Vancouver agree to support Canada and the British Empire.
  • The Ottoman Empire masses troops off the border of Bulgaria.
  • British forces sink a German submarine.
  • French troops with British naval support take Togoland.
  • Portugal joins the war on the British side.
  • Americans are leaving England by the boat load.
  • The large full-page map of Europe from yesterday's Sunday-insert is reprinted on the back page.

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


Source: http://www.mbarrick.com/blog/140810/daily-colonist-august-10-1914

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