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Southland Times, Issue 17609, 25 March 1914, Page 7

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COTTON ON FIRE. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. BOMBAY; March 22. Sixty thousand bales of cotton have been burned, the damage* being estimated at £500,000. BOOK OF' THE DEAD. PARIS, March 2:5. A magnificent 70ft. papyrus of the Egyptian Rook of the Read is missing from the Louvre. .The Rook of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian work consisting of a collection of composed at various periods. Copies were placed in mummy cases in order to free the departed from tho influence of evil spirits and to give them safe conduct through the lower world. TURKISH MANOEUVRES. CONSTANTINOPLE. Mare!) 22. At General Von Sanders' instance, Enver Bey (Minister for War) lias ordered th.at the May manoeuvres shall bo held near the Russian frontier. Tho forces will comprise 150,000 infantry, 20,000 cavalry and 500 guns. WIRELESS IN AFRICA. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) NEW YORK "'arc!; A decision of the United States I >istrict Court is construed by the American Company as upholding toe validity of the Marconi patents and raving the way for the complete control of wireless in Africa. 1 tOOK EV E LT’S EX RED ITI UN. NEW YORK, March 22. Mr Anthony Fiala. a member of the Roosevelt Exploration Expedition. reports that everything was lost in the rapids of a tributary of the Amazon. The parly is safe. The latest news was that tho parly had been engagcil around Santarem t Brazil).