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News out of Victoria 100 years ago:
- News of "yesterday's" declaration of war against Russia by Germany has made it out to our little Imperial backwater.
- Germany invades Luxembourg
- For the first time the German emperor is referred to as "Kaiser" (on page two).
- Prime Minister Borden expects the British Empire to declare war before the day is out. The Militia Department is being kept open (Aug. 2, 1914 was a Sunday).

The news out of Victoria 100 years ago today:
- The front page is covered with maps and speculation about the war, but hidden away on the second-to-last page is what would be a giant headline today: the New York Stock Exchange is closed to prevent panic trading due to war fears.

#dailycolonist1914
http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1914

News from Victoria on this day in 1914 (exactly 53 years before I was born):
- Austria has taken Belgrade
- Large pictures of Emperor William II and Emperor Nicholas II (it's interesting the German king does not get called "Kaiser Wilhelm" until after the war starts) that really should have the headline "Inbred Cousins to Decide if Millions Die."
- Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Minister, is overheard in private conversation outside Parliament saying that if war breaks out, it could last for 20 years. 

The news out of Victoria 100 years ago today:
- Talks between Russia and Germany are at an impasse
- Russia is massing troops on the Austrian border to aid Serbia
- Germany is preparing to back up Austria
- Austria is shelling Belgrade
- Serbians are blowing up their own bridges to slow down the Austrians
- Fighting in the Mexican Revolution of 1910 continues [and will continue for another three years]

Today's news from 100 years ago out of Victoria:
- Austria has officially declared war on Serbia
- Austrian citizens in the prairie provinces are asked to contact the Austrian consulate Winnipeg to find out if they have been drafted
- Russia announces that they won't go to war if Germany doesn't
- A 10-year-old boy in Bella Coola is mauled by a cougar

Lead news in the Colonist on this day in 1914 was about Irish republicans rioting. The first armed clash between Austria and Serbia that now, with hindsight, marks the beginning of WW I, is just a far away border skirmish, and there is still hope that full-scale war can be avoided...

http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist56y195uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
#dailycolonist1914
http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1914

#dailycolonist1914

In the paper 100 years ago:
"WAR IN EUROPE ALMOST CERTAIN"

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

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Check out this cool composite Ophelia Overdose made from some of the photos I took for Gothic BC of her on stage at the Sin City 13-year Anniversary.

[ Reposted from my blog on Gothic BC #GothicBC ]

Check out this cool composite Ophelia Overdose made from some of the photos I took for Gothic BC of her on stage at the Sin City 13-year Anniversary.