BRITAIN’S COAL SUPPLY.
CABLE NEWS.
A PESSIMISTIC ESTIMATE
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
(Received October 27th, 10.30 p.ui.) LONDON, October 27
Mr Markham, M-P-. although a free trader, in a letter published in “The Times," predicts that according to the present consumption and the rate of export, the thick steam coal seams in Great Britain will be practically exhausted within the present generation. He adds: —' foal being capital, it ought, iu a fiscal controversy, to be treated differently from other exports, inasmuch as it cannot- be replaced."
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11725, 28 October 1903, Page 8
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