AURORAL MAGNETISM.
—9-r-WIRES AFFECTED. (By. Tcleciaph.-rrcss Aunrtnilnn.—Oopyrlcht) ... - , London, Soptember 27. . Tho northern lights were soon in St. Petersburg, and in Franco and Italy. There wore no auroral manifestations in Britain. ' The submarine cables. did not suffer,: though ,tho connecting land wires wero disturbed. ' Many outbreaks of fito in tho telegraph, ofllccs 'of Scandinavia and Northern' Germany ' 'hiTO reported,;, due. tb the burning ,of the coverings of tho wires. ' • ;: : M«"i6Urne, September 28. Saturday's magnetio, disturbance caused considofablfi- trouble on thetelegraph line's, "and also to some .extent affected the. cable service. | In the imessages from Cocos Islands thp strokes, • i which are usually " horizontal were given ! a ; peculiar undulating appearahce. : : V.' [ -Tho Government Astronomer states that tho ■ storm; was. the-most severe in his experiec o. . In the' last .twenty-four. 1 hours the oscillations '• recorded on the instrument went' over' tho side 'yof the recording , paper.'
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 624, 29 September 1909, Page 7
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143AURORAL MAGNETISM. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 624, 29 September 1909, Page 7
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