ACUTE COAL SHORTAGE
POSITION IN GERMANY HUGE DEMANDS OF INDUSTRY PACE OF FOUR-YEAR PLAN (Received December 20, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 20 A Berlin press announcement that persons holding winter relief fund coal coupons for December will not obtain supplies before January 1 was an .official admission that Germany is suffering an acute coal shortage, says the correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The reason is the enormously increased demands by industry in order to keep up the pace of the four-year ■plan. Germany's desire for self-suffi-ciency in petrol is also absorbing millions of tons of coal annually for the extraction of the by-products.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23233, 30 December 1938, Page 9
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103ACUTE COAL SHORTAGE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23233, 30 December 1938, Page 9
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