More turf than coal is burned in Ire-land,-.6.000,000 tons of peat turf .being used every, year, against 4,500,000 tono of coal. France has com.c 5000 miles o£ canals, which are broad and deep enough to carry barges of six feet draught, and of 300 tons burden. There ars 2,000,000 acres of producing cultivated rubbei trees in the world. 01 t!i«e J,6C3,oM)ncres & r « under British contra. .." ' .
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 83, 8 April 1920, Page 3
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