The New Westminster News
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alternative: [New Westminster Daily News]
issued: 2016-06-14
issued: 1914-08-04
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nwdn/items/1.0316096/source.json
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note: ! �� , ��� ��� i ;��� Volume 9, N ; ������ 128. NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1914 Price Five Cents. TH[ GREAT EUROPEAN NATIONS UNDER ARMS With Thousands of Troops Under Arms as Yet no Armed Conflict Has Taken Place���Number of Skirmishes Be- tween Small Forces of German and Russian Soldiers, and German and French Troops Have Been Reported ���Latest Development During Past Twenty-four Hours Is Germany's Demand upon Belgium Which Was Refused���England Will Not Submit to the Invasion of Belgium���British Sentiment Stronger for War. ''ndon, Aug. ;!, All the great Euro- pean powers except Italy and most of tne secondary powers, are mobilizing With all their energy. Mobilization has not yet reached a stage where any of the armies have mot in battle. lily, which declared her neutrality, Will begin to mobilize only tomorrow, a!i -.ough the process probablv Is well ]-'" way. Great Britain's mobilization is nearly completed, but she ha; ie r jet announced that the will join in ihe general war. Ti night war officially existed between Austria and Germany ou the "iih side, and Russia, Servia and Mon< tenegro on the other. There bad been no official declaration of war between Germany aud Prance on either side. Uu; tonight the (ierman ambassador in Paris received orders io demand his passoprts. The most important event In the past twenty four hours was Oermany'i i eraand upon Belgium. In the form ot a twelve-hour .ultimatum, that the Cerman troops be permitted ti/cro.,- Betglum to the Krench frontier, coupled with the promise that Belgian integrity should remain unimpaired at the .nd of the war, and that Btlgulin should be compensated. To this Belgium refused to accede on the grounds of her rights and honor. Su- Kdward (irey, the British secretary of foreiKti affairs, made a statement in the bouse of commons. ii.Ui- ca iug that (ireat Britain's Interests .md obligations could not permit her t.i submit to the Invasion of Belgian territory. This practically left…
note: Titled The Daily News from 1906-03-06 to 1912-04-24; Westminster Daily News from 1912-04-25 to 1912-12-04; and The New Westminster News from 1912-12-05 to 1914-09-04. Published by The Daily News Publishing Company, Limited from 1903-03-06 to 1912-04-24; and The National Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd. from 1912-04-25 to 1914-09-04.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: New Westminster (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0316096
language: English
lat: 49.206667
long: -122.910556
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: New Westminster, B.C. : The Daily News Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text