Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1915-05-08
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note: The Week fl British Columbia Newspaper and Review The Official Organ of the Victoria Real Estate Exchange fol. XII, No. 50-Twelfth Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, May 8,1915 5c. a copy, $2.00 a year Progress of the War ^■"TT-'UIK BURDEN of tho war is now on the shoulders of nil Bl I our people. We are beginning to feel it. The daily ar- I ■*- rival of casualty lists is bringing it home to us in the most BBdtmate sense. Hundreds of Canadian mothers nre weeping for Hms who will never more darken the doors of their home. The Huhlic is touched to the quick hy bulletins which tell of the loss of Hruve young fellows who were prominent in the community, and Him were known to thousand outside their own families. In this H'uy Canada feels for tho first time a real sense of personal loss, Hml of active participation in the horrors, the sufferings, and the ^Bereavements of a great war. Something of that sober note which H'us so prominent in the reports from England in the earliest days Hi' the war is beginning to steal over the Canadian people, and its ^H-.eronce only tends to emphasize the incongruity .of external issues. Hast Fall Lord Kitchener said tlrnt the war would really begin in Hlnv. the results of the Inst week tend to confirm the accuracy of his ^Prediction. At the moment of writing, vital issues are nt stake in Hlic Dardanelles, in Gnlicin, nnd in Belgium. In the former the ^Hucrgotic bombardment of nearly two months ago has given place Hi a serious campaign by land nnd sen; the occupation of the Gal- Hipnli Peninsula by the Allies is a military movement of importance liul magnitude. Owing to the configuration of the country, progress Hill be slow, but there is no reason to doubt that it will be continu- Hiis. The calibre of the Turkish troops is greatly inferior to that Hi' tho German, tho Allies have a large army, probably not less than Ho0,000 men, contiguous to the Straits; the efficiency of the naval Huns has already been demonstrated, and when land and sea forc…
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: 10.14288/1.0373912
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