BRITISH GOAL CRISIS.
STATE OF WAR LIKELY. MR CRAMP'S DECLARATION. By Telajrapk—Prsss Association—Copyright. Reuter’s Telesrrams LONDON, May 2 The coal situation is unchanged. “A long strike” sums up the feeling generally, with possibilities of appalling complications and happenings ever lurking in the background. Mr Cramp, speaking at Leeds, declared that “ unless things alter I candidly think we shall drift into a state of war within a fortnight.” OIL REPLACING COAL. CONVERSION OF MACHINERY PROCEEDING. Reuter’s Telesrams. LONDON, 3lay 2. Sydney North, the famous expert on oil driven machinery, declares that there is no necessity for a shortage of power owing to lack of coal, as machinery can be converted for us© with oil in an hour, and less than a week should suffice to instal the needful tanks and pipes for storing and supplying oil. It was recently decided thus to convert 50 per cent of tho furnaces of a large London power house and the work has practically been completed. Tho railways are following
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16416, 3 May 1921, Page 5
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