GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5, 6 January 1914, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

FATALITY IN CHINESE MINE. [By EIECTIUO TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHTj [United Press Association.] Pekin, January 4. An explosion of fire-damp in a colliery at Kulja killed 16 miners. THE COST OF LIVING. Times— Sydney Sun Special Cables. London, January 5. Several of the leading London banks increased the salaries of their stall's, as an acknowledgment of the increased cost of living and a recognition merit. It is stated that salaries have now increased by 50 per cent, in 20 years. THE YANKEE EVERY TIME. New York, January 5. Papers claim that New York has passed London as the most denselypopulated city in the world. They point out that the population of Greater London is 7,411,000, and of Greater New York 5,4(6,966, but the area of the former is 793 square miles and of the latter 326 square miles, SUICIDE IN A CAFE. Paris, January 5. During New Year revels in a cafe in Montmartre, a youth jumped on a chair shouting “I’ll show you something new.” Then he drew a revolver, cried" “Good-bye to life,” fired, aifd fell dead. Women fainted and men fled panic-stricken.

MOUNTAIN WARRIORS. London, January o. Earl Percy, addressing the’“Grenadier Guards, and describing the work of the Egyptian Camel Corps in South Kordofan, states that the Baggara are the remnants of fierce warriors who formed the main fighting strength of the Dervishes and who retreated to mountain fastnesses, retiring into the bowels of the earth, whence they popper attacking troops. The Camel Corps recently explored these lahyrinthian recesses, but though some losses were- suffered, ‘the tribesmen realised their immunity and vanished. The arm' of the Government, however, is able to reach them.