mbarrick | Dec. 10th, 2014

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#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years (plus two days) ago today:

Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden [that's the guy on the $100 bill] addresses the Canadian and Empire clubs of Toronto. Vows to stand with Britain and will, to paraphrase, keep throwing men into the meat grinder as long as necessary.
An interesting article detailing the current methods of trench warfare. \240
Full-page war technology feature in the magazine section is on aerial combat.
http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist56y308uvic#page/n18/mode/1up
The usual excellent round-up of the week's events in the children's section, including acknowledgement of something I mention earlier, that the news from the Russian front is confusing and contradictory.

https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist56y308uvic

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

Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden [the guy on the $100 bill] addresses members of the Canadian Club of Montréal\240in two speeches. Stresses that the war should bring greater independence to self-administering Dominions in the British Empire.\240
Strange little article on the number of Jews in the German army [odd and irrelevant in the 1914 context, interesting from a historical context aware of events in Germany through the 1930's and 1940's]
A more detailed report on Sir Robert Borden's speeches in Montréal, including interesting sections on Britain's culpability in causing the war, the failure of pre-war German intelligence gathering, more details on the semi-independence of self-governing Dominions, and renewed vows to keep sending men until victory is achieved.
A notice on the back page that "All Subjects of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire" must register by December 31 or be liable to arrest as a prisoner of war.

https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist56y309uvic

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