Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1914-10-17
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/pwv/items/1.0373782/source.json
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note: The Week a British Columbia Newspaper and Review The Official Organ of the Victoria Real Estate Exchange Victoria, B, C, Canada, Oct. 17th, J9J4 5c. a copy, $2.00 a year "Tlie Soldiers of the King" Are in the fighting line. THE SUBJECTS OF THE KING Are in the giving line. WHERE ARE YOU? If your nanie is nut already on lhe list place il there today. IT IS YOUR SIMPLE DUTY The sailors and soldiers of the Empire are doing theirs. Am I lining mine? For men who are giving their lives I cannot do less than the utmost. I can help during the war: 1. TO SUPPORT THE WIVES, CHILDREN AND DEPENDENTS OP THOSE ON ACTIVE SERVICE. 2. OF THOSE KILLED IN WAR. 3. TO ASSIST THE WIVES, CHILDREN AND DEPENDENTS OF THOSE PLUNGED INTO WANT BY THE WAR. My offering can be devoted to the above purpose? by making cheques and orders payable to The Victoria Patriotic Aid Society Corner of Fort and Broad Streets Phases of the War NOT a few of the leading English papers are beginning to tire of thc policy which the press has pursued since tho beginning of the war, and for the lirst time evince a disposition to face the facts. For two and a half months, with the exception of the period during which thc Allies were retreating westward from Mons to the fortifications of Paris, we have been regaled with a story of repeated German reverses, either on the eastern or western frontier. Sir John French's report gave us the only glimpse of the truth, when he showed how nearly tlie British forces were to annihilation on that first retreat from Mons. But for his illuminating statement we mighl have accepted all that thc Press Association told us, including the statement that the retreat of the Allies was strategic. We now know that it was nothing of the kind. Wc know that the retreat meant defeat, and if tlie positions had been reversed, wc should have called it by no other name. We know that we werc only saved by a miracle, and that miracle a further tribute to the superiority of the German forces which had ad…
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: 10.14288/1.0373782
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