Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1914-08-08
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note: A British Columbia Newspaper and Review. The Official Organ of the Victoria Real Estate Exchange* Victoria, B.C., Canada, August 8. 1914 5c. a copy, $2.00 a year ANNOUNCEMENT. For twelve years The Week has kept the Union Jack flying in its cdito- I columns. Whateve, other issues have been at stake, it has always relied as its chief mission the spread of Imperialism. It has been proud to Ifsociated specially with the work of the Navy League and the formation pe Naval Volunteers. It has also tried to maintain a fair and progres- policy in public matters. At the present time it finds itself, in coin- l with most newspapers, face to face with such a curtailment of income pill make it impossible to continue publication without some assistance. 1 big dailies are in a position to secure this assistance; The Week is not We are any in Victoria who believe that the work of The Week in the 1 and its prospect of usefulness during the great world struggle ou which have now entered justify the effort to keep it alive, the editor will glad- Jvail himself of such assistance at the present time. If, however, the de- Ids of the moment in other directions are too heavy too admit of this, 1 Week must cease publication with the current issue and will do so with ling but gratitude for the splendid support it has received for so many Is, and especially for the" many cheering expressions of approval which le have rendered the continuance of its work possible. IE hour lnis struck. Not only Europe, the immediate theatre of war, but the whole world traits on the result of greatest clash of nrnis in the history of the race. Never before has there been a Id-wide campaign, yet, today there is not a |le Great Power, which is not either en- in actual warfare or mobilizing for Itualities. A war between England and liiiiuy has been imminent for seven years, Ino one anticipated that when it broke out lould practically embrace all tho Powers. lay England, Prance, Russia, Germany, Itrin, Belgium nnd Se…
note: '"""' a mild form of exercise in the sun- Street and Tottenham Court Road is son was summer. and, despite the rained upon him by the latter. What modern laxity of mode, he still ad- the thief saw was imminent captivity direct product of Russian diplomacy, be different. But British statesmen With the victories of Lnle Burgas, are unlikely to run the risk of a Ger- Kumnnovo and Jenidje-Vardni', Tur- man victory which will leave Ger- kish (lower iu Europe collapsed and mnny with her bunds free to fight the smnll Balkan states, increased by for naval supremacy, great territorial gain, stood on Aus- The worst phase of tho present tria's southern frontier burring her crisis is (lint neither Alliance nor En- road to the Aegean, and in the case tente can now escape war witliout tre- of Servia, threatening to play the role mentions loss of prestige. The chnl- on the Danube that Sardinia had lenge of Austria has been made in played on the Po and unite the south- such a fashion that it leaves Russia ern Slavs as Sardinia united Italy. no visible choice between war and dis- To prevent this Austria resorted to honor. German official utterance desperate tactics. Like Germany, she gives the thing the value of an issue shine of a Mny afternoon would have one of the least propitious places in supposed that'Fate was about to en- 'be whole British Empire for such a rich him with the most pregnant ex- contest of forces to reach its natural perienee of his life. Yet so it proved, conclusion. For just as Mr. Podmore reached Attaost in less tune than it takes thnt point in his journey where Ox- tu write, public opinion and the law ford Street, invigorated by the aroma bad intervened; the combatants were of pickles, revives itself and be- Pirtedj and the old woman and the comes New, something happened to y°utk conducted to the police sta- him, so swift, so unexpected and so ton, accompanied by Mr. Podmore, startling that he was never after- •""! followed by a considerable crowd. wards full…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) ; The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) ; "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) ; publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0373746
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : "The Week" 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