Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1915-10-02
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note: The Week B British Columbia Newspaper and Review The Official Organ ot the Victoria Real Estate Exchange and of the Royal Victoria Vacht Club Vol. XIII, No. 1^—14th Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, October 2,1915 5c. a copy $2.00 a year Progress of the War APICTUEE of tho grunt war, which absorbs our every thought and shackles our every interest, would be kaleidoscopic. During the fourteen months which have elapsed since its outbreak the changes which have alternately depressed and enervated our spirits have been both numerous and momentous. The peak of our optimism was reached at Mons, at the Marne, at Neuve Chapelle and Festubert in tlie AVest; at the centre of East Prussia, nt the environs of Cracow and at the Carpathian passes in the East; and in the Naval engagements in the North. Sea and off the Falkland Islands whieh mainly characterize the spectacular victories of the British Navy. To these mny be added other incidents of the war which perhaps we may not set in their true perspective, but which were accountable for an elation of spirits whieh tided us over many gloomy days. To this second category may be assigned our repeated victories over tho Turkish armies in Asin Minor, the brilliant feats of our submarines in the Sea of Marmora, and the marvellous success which has attended the efforts of the Admiralty to subdue tho submarine menace. It is well to recount these momentous events, been use in the flush of our recent great victory wc are apt to lose sight of them, nnd to talk ns if the Allies had just achieved the first real victory of tbe war. It would be far more correct to say that the ningnificiont performances of our troops on the West frontier whieh hnve sent a thrill of joy throughout the Empire, are the culmination of mnny events of the yenr which have transcended anything achieved in nncient or modern warfare, Tho stupendous proportion of nil tlie operations of the present wnr baffle our comprehension, and it will be years nfter its close before we sh…
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: 10.14288/1.0373903
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