Second Edition. GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1, 31 December 1913, Page 6

Second Edition. GENERAL CABLES.

POLICE PATROL MISSING. [Br Electric Telegraph—Cory right j .[United Press Association,'] Ottawa, December 00. Another patrol of the Royal NorthWest Mounted Police has been lost in the northern wilds. Sergeant Harper and Constable Stevenson left for Porcupine River in October, to search for a man who was concerned in the abduction of a girl. Trappers report that they found police guns, but no trace of the men. A search patrol has been despatched.

A NEW STEAMER LAUNCHED.

London, December 30,

The New Zealand Shipping Company’s new steamer Hororata has bcei launched at Dumbarton.

SHACKLETON’S EXPEDITION

(Received 1 p.m.) London, December 30

Professor David lias arrived. Ho acts as scion tide adviser to the Shackleton expedition. He states that the journey will probably be the most perilous and difficult in the world. Dogs and sledges with aeroplane attachment is the best possible transport. In orde r to make the journey valuable, Shackleton will prbbabiy divert his route slightly to the right near the south polar plateau in order to locate the Antarctic Amies.

ANCIENT PAINTINGS. Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. Calcutta, December 29. Arrangements are in'* progress to despatch an expedition to the Jegmari caves, in the Ramdaval Hills, Orissa, to secure extraordinary paintings which are supposed to date from 200 B.C. They were found in caves which are extremely inaccessible, lying in the middle of wild and remote jungles.

HEAVY SNOWSTORMS.

Teheran, December 30

Ten peasants who wore returning from a fair at Sara toff, after a snowstorm,‘were frozen to death. Twenty

are missing. r • • * ’ St. Petersburg, December 30. Seven people lost their lives in a snow-storm at the Czekino. station, on the Moscow-Kurah line.