The Daily Colonist, August 14, 1914

[mbarrick]

#dailycolonist1914 - News from Victoria 100 years ago today:

• A little reminder that some things have changed in a century: a German spy is caught releasing a carrier pigeon on a train from Antwerp.
• The "500 young men" mentioned in Great Big Sea's 1997 song "The Recruiting Sergeant" sign up in Newfoundland.\240
• German government is shooting socialists and pacifists
• German soldiers reportedly don't have any idea what the war is about
• San Francisco Examiner newspaper violates American neutrality by providing information to Germans
• French bravery lauded
• Huge, long list of locals that have contributed to money to the war effort

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