Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1914-10-31
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note: The Week A British Columbia Newspaper and Review The Official Organ of the Victoria Real Estate Exchange Victoria, B. G, Canada, Oct. 3Jst, 1914 5c. a copy, $2.00 a year HE GIVES TWICE WHO GIVES QUICKLY Double the value of your subscription by giving NOW. The need has already arisen and many noble hearts are striving to meet it. You are urged to join the list of those who are willing to make a little sacrifice for the Wives and Children of the men who are fighting to protect your homes and all that you hold dear. THE PATRIOTIC FUND Corner of Fort and Broad Sts. Progress of the War THE drama which is being unfolded on such a gigantic scale behind the curtain which the censors of the Great Powers have drawn gives to the audience in front but a distant sound of the rumblings of war and an occasional glimpse of some incident which stands out with startling vividness. The world , may well be compared to the relatives and friends of those taking typart in some gladiatorial contest in one of the old Roman arenas, f Excluded from the auditorium they lingered with consuming .anxiety on the outside, eager to catch the slightest inkling of what 'was happening within, and ignorant of the progress of the fight and all its catastrophe of blood and sorrow until it was ended. The gleams of light which are thrown on the theatre of war reveal but the faintest glimpses of its actualities. Even London dailies are driven to expand a few lines of laconic official report into columns of descriptive writing. There has been much criticism of the policy of the official press bureau, and the British Empire at any rate is only half convinced that its embargo of silence is justifiable. As one London daily well puts it, "We are all prepared to submit to the suppression of news, the publication of which would assist the enemy," but the action of the press bureau has been more far-reaching and the public have not been taken into its confidence, even many days after cyclonic events have happened. T…
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: 10.14288/1.0373778
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/
is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text