GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 36, 12 February 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

0 COLD IN THE ANTARCTIC. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association. 1 London, February 10. Professor David, in a lecture before the Geographical Society, said it was almost certain that payable gold would be found in the Antarctic. STOLEN FRENCH MAPS. Paris, February 10. Fifty French military maps ana voluminous correspondence in German were found by the police when searching the house of Burgeaund, near Xancy, who was arrested in the vicinity of the fortifications ,of Toulon,-* Several maps had marginal notes relating to forts. EARTHQUAKES IN NEW YORK. New York, February 11. An earthquake shook pictures from the walls in the State Capitol, chimneys fell, and a whole section, geologically known as devonian Silurian stratus, was shaken. WONDERFUL WIRELESS. London, February 10. Marconi expects to be able to equip the Equitania with wireless telephony with a radius of three hundred miles. DROUGHT BROKEN. Sydney, February 11. The long spell of heat and drought has broken, and the conditions are I generally cooler, with useful scattered rains. j AN ACTRESS COMMITS SUICIDE. Sydney, February 11. An actress named Miss Jessie Thorn committed suicide with poison , at the Hotel Guri, after participating in a performance. I SMALLPOX. Sydney, Februaiy 11. { Another smallpox case is reported \ from Singleton.