COAL SUPPLIES.
GREAT SHORTAGES
AMSTERDAM, February 21. It is reported from Brussels that 60,000 workers, including 40,000 Belgians, are working m colleries at CJiarleroi, Liege, and Mons.y There are abundant stocks of coal, and all axe unused, as the Germans require all for transport and military purposes. The University of Heidelberg wilJ close on February 24, owing to the scarcity of cool.
COPENHAGEN, February 24. The Vossische Zeitung states that Scandinavian countries are unable to obtain British coal, and are negotiating for German coal, which will be made available, provided the Scandinavian? will supply coal trucks. Dr Lely, Dutch Minister for Public Works, has informed Parliament that Holland had sent to Germany 3000 trucks.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14235, 1 March 1917, Page 6
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114COAL SUPPLIES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14235, 1 March 1917, Page 6
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