Michael R. Barrick's blog
Wed, 2014/10/15 - 3:57pm
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.
Lead news is about how well protected French ports such as Calais are, but it comes off as hollow propaganda after the fall of Antwerp, one of the best fortified cities in Western Europe and...
Wed, 2014/10/15 - 11:23am
Tue, 2014/10/14 - 10:23pm
Tue, 2014/10/14 - 1:20pm
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:
• Map of the Russian front featured prominently on the front page, but most of the stories are about Antwerp.
• "Antwerp Gets Usual Orders" - food to be provided to Germans, etc..
• Canadian training and staging area in England established on Salisbury Plain
• Germans reported to be producing heavy guns with an unprecedented range of 25 miles (40 Km).
• Boston Braves win the World Series.
• And in local news, pod of "blackfish" [killer whales / orca] "spoil" sport fishing for most of the day in the Sannich Arm by scaring off all the salmon.
Tue, 2014/10/14 - 11:23am
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