Queen Charlotte Islander
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issued: 2016-02-29
issued: 1914-08-15
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note: . il >« ' *4 .*.T. «.-, i-U if . - / / ' . ^ ""■*$ ft i "'; rf A Weekly Newspaper Published in the interests of the Settlers, and to promote the development of the Queen Charlotte Islands. VOL. 3, No. 43 MASSETT, GRAHAM ISLAND, B.C. SATURDAY, t AUGUST 15, 1914 5 Cents per Copy Latest War News. The following bulletins were received by Operator Graef yesterday from Queen Charlotte Citv, being taken from the latest Prince Rupert papers on arrival of the Prince John: London 13th.—A news despatch from Paris states that a great battle on the Belgium frontier was begun today. Over 4,000 guns were in action and their boom was heard along the front of 180 miles. Although the battle is the greatest the world has yet known the Belgium continental censor is careful today to render impossible any clear view of the disposition of the two million men already engaged or moving rapidly to the conflict. The most important known phase of the fighting is still the engagement on the right flank of the first German army where the Belgians and allies are reported to have got in the rear of the Germans, turning their right flank. Brussels 13th.—The Belgium cavalry took the offensive today against the German cavalry division defeated in yesterday's battle of Haelen. The German lost two thousand there Nish, 13th.—The Servian war office Announces today that the Servian troops ai*e steadily pressing their way into Ai istria and have occupied nine Bosnian to^ns. They report the defeat of the Ai-jtstrian soldiers at Vihar stating that th'je enemy abandoned their field equip- tir.ientin their flight toward Esceainitche • Berlin, 13th.—A wireless message from Nauen to Tuckerton N. J., claims that the Germans took one hundred and twenty French Officers ..nd over eleven hundred soldiers prisoners in the fighting near Mulhausen. They also took one thousand French prisoners at the fight near Longwy. Paris 13th.—Several French towns in the vicinity Mourth Et Mossele, on the German frontier, were shelle…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Queen Charlotte (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0312706
language: English
lat: 53.254722
long: -132.1025
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Queen Charlotte, B.C. : J.M. Campbell
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text