COAL SHORTAGE
WEATHER RESPONSIBLE
LONDON, February 6.
The Minister of Mines, Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, replying to a question in the House of Commons regarding the recent lack of coal supplies in various areas, said that in such exceptionally severe weather conditions as had been experienced in the last few weeks, nothing would prevent an occurrence of temporary difficulties in distributing coal.
"These difficulties were not due to any shortage of coal, but to the impossibility of moving it, even in some cases where it was already at the depots in the towns where supplies were needed," he said.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1940, Page 10
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98COAL SHORTAGE Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1940, Page 10
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