GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 21, 24 January 1914, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

FROZEN TO DEATH.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times— Sydney Sun Special Carles Berlin, January 2.‘i.

Six children, when returning home from Woinhert, Erzcehorg, were overtaken by a heavy snowstorm, and refuged in a cave on the side of the cliff. They wore found frozen to death. ■

LURE OF THE OPEN DRESS.

London, January 23

At a meeting of men held at Queen’s Hall to promote purity in thought and deed, Prebendary Webster pointed out the urgent necessity for an alteration in present-day dress. Ho hardly knew what to do sometimes when he found himself in an omnibus opposite some lady who wore an open dress. It was most disturbing, and sowed the seeds of passion in men. It is not right that, when walking through the public streets, or riding in public conveyances, men should he subjected to these unseemly exposures.

ELECTRICITY AS RAIN-MAKER.

London, January 23 London, January 23

Sir Oliver Lodge, speaking at the Institute of Electrical Engineers, suggested that the control of the Electrical conditions of the atmosphere at night would he a proper line of research to follow. In any attempt to control the weather, experiments ought to me made as to the effect, in countries where rain was require;!, of Hying kites at a high elevation. That would he a means of discharging into the clouds sufficient electricity to start a rainfall.

TORPEDOERS FOR GREECE.

[United Press Association.! Berlin, January 23

Six torpedoers to the order of Greece have been completed at StetI tin.

GERMAN DIPLOMATIC DEFEAT.

London, January 23

The Daily Mail's Berlin correspondent says it is freely admitted that Germany has suffered a diplomatic defeat by the, withdrawal of all semblance of military authority from Limam Pasha. The Kaiser, with whom the idea originated, hlanlos Vienna.