GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 94, 20 December 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

A PEACE TREATY. [By Electric Telegraph—[United Press Association.] Washington, December 18. A treatyhas been signed with the Netherlands, following the lines of Mr Bryan’s peace' proposal, for the investigation of international disputes before war.

AN OPERA SENSATION.

Berlin, December 19. At a performance of “Lohengrin” by

the Royal Opera Company, a naked man rushed through the stalls and climbed into the orchestra. There was a sensation until lie was covered with a sheet and carried behind the scenes. Ho was discovered to ho a crazy taxi-cab .([river.

CYCLONES IN CEYLON.

.Colombo, December 19. The cyclonic weather lias abated, but the railway service is still dislocated. Many bridges were washed away". Eleven deaths were recorded. FRANCE’S NATIONAL DEBT. Times —Sydney Sun Special Cables. Paris, December 19. Financial experts estimate that Franco’s national debt is £124,000,009, while it will require £160,000,000 to place the national finances on a sound basis. A CASHIER ABSCONDS. Paris, December 18. The cashier in the Paris office of the New York Herald has disappeared with £SOOO belonging to the paper. He left a letter explaining that at first he took £4OOO to finance a scheme for selling pearls in America. His partner had abandoned the business and gone off with the money; therefore he had taken £IOOO more, hoping with this help to make the enterprise a success.