AN APPEAL FOR COAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14689, 22 August 1918, Page 5

AN APPEAL FOR COAL.

' ' VXTAi r TO Y^pRY. SERIOUS SHORTAGE IN ALL COU^TRIEB; !." Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) • (Received; Augxist ! 22/ 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 21. Mi- Caltihrop, speaking' at 4' of the Miners' Federation, at. Southport,. said the coiint-iyfaoed.'a ..Ooal of thirty-six million tons a year. It was hoped to save between eight millions and nine millions by means Of liousehoiLd! 1-ation.ing. v'Theroo^- gaa djeficit coudd -' onily 'be met* by \ ratiohirig important ' industries not directly concerned m war work, ■ and! by improved output. , s The Allies' pjfivatioiieiii.ar exceeded ours. France s coal rating for a family of five was only 28 hundnedweight per annxun! The Amlenicani troops pouring into.' Fi*aJice'-needed< meat constantly. NeaMy ' »lh the coa*- dekVr - cries to the railways were suspended m order to divert shipments to Italy. The Germans' straits were worse ,-than ours,. „ but during July wd were 'unable to fulfil our obligations to tmr AtHiesvarid..n.eu> trials: July's output was 15>76b,009 tonsj representing a decrease of 3,300,000 ' compared w^th 1917, but July.coudd not bs regarded as normal, because fifty per cent, of the miners m June and July ; were absent a week owing to influenza. Mr Galthrop read messages from. Admiral Beatty, Sir Douglas Haig, andl M. Clemenceaux, urging air adsquatW supply of % coal a® viital to^the^AUies'- cause. -. ; /General Foch telegraphed: ."Goal is the key .to victory. Minenf- of Britain, help 'me, . , ■ > , . • ' '• ■ i-.-- -1.14-. ■ •»''..;"•-'• tit.