Aug. 14th, 2014

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#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

Source: http://www.mbarrick.com/blog/140814/daily-colonist-august-14-1914

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