ECONOMIC PROBLEMS.
J BURDEN OF COAL CONTROL.
GREATER PRODUCTION NEEDED. AUSTRIA'S NECESSITIES. (By Cable.—Press Assoclatlon.-Copyrlght.) (Received 11.35 a.m.) '_ ROME, November 2G. t *"° rd Crawford (Chancellor of the jjDuchv of Lancaster), speaking at the , J Inter-Allied Economic Committee de- : 3 j dared that control of coal production and 1 i distribution was an unsupportablc bur- : J den on the British taxpayer, adding that j in the past sixteen months the Treasury had lost £400,000 a week. The only solution of the problem lay in increased production, not only in England, but in France and the rest of Europe. Mr. Cecil Harmsworth (Parliamentary Lnder Secretary for Foreign Affairs*) said that the question of supplying Austria with necessities concerned* not only the Allies, but the whole world. The Economic Council had neither the power 5 nor the means to meet the necessity, j The council decided to continue the 1 inter-Allied agreement regarding food j supplies after December 31 iiext, the date ! originally fixed for its expiry.—(A. and i Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 282, 27 November 1919, Page 7
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