Oct. 20th, 2014

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

  • German advance toward French ports on the English Channel still stymied.\240
  • Hundreds of thousands of Belgian refugees in England and Netherlands. Those still in Belgium [including my maternal grandparents] facing starvation.
  • Trade negotiations for British Columbia to provide lumber to Australia at a preferential within-the-Empire rate going well.

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


Source: http://www.mbarrick.com/blog/141020/daily-colonist-october-20-1914
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