{"id":8882,"date":"2014-08-15T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=8882"},"modified":"2014-08-15T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T10:00:17","slug":"westmount-police-dismantle-wireless-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/westmount-police-dismantle-wireless-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Westmount Police Dismantle Wireless Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/15-Aug-14_A.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7887\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/15-Aug-14_A-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"15 Aug 14_A\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 15 August 1914 &#8211; Following the declaration of war, government officials took immediate measures to secure vital infrastructure sites such as the Victoria Bridge and the locks on the Lachine Canal.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Regt. Victoria Rifles of Canada were placed on active service on 6 August 1914 for local protection duties.\u00a0 Government authorities also took steps to take control over radio and wireless to prevent communication with the enemy.\u00a0 Public notices such as this began to appear in local newspapers, warning Westmounters to dismantle any wireless transmitters they might own.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7888 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/15-Aug-14_B.jpg\" alt=\"15 Aug 14_B\" width=\"481\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>[1] The Montreal Daily Mail,<\/pre>\n<pre>[2] The Montreal Daily Mail, Friday, August 5, 1914, pg. 12, col. 5.<\/pre>\n<pre>[3] The Westmount News, Friday, August 14<sup>th<\/sup>, 1914 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=7Pm5v_kJJ6IC&amp;dat=19140814&amp;printsec=frontpage&amp;hl=en\">http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=7Pm5v_kJJ6IC&amp;dat=19140814&amp;printsec=frontpage&amp;hl=en<\/a><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 15 August 1914 &#8211; Following the declaration of war, government officials took immediate measures to secure vital infrastructure sites such as the Victoria Bridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}