DESPERATE MEASURES TO CONSERVE COAL
Received Fridav, 7 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 6. The Ministry of F-uel has banned all sliipinents of coal for overseas ports and l'orbidden bunkering ships leaving f'or foreign ports, says the Daily Telegraph. The Government is wratching the position from day to day and may introduce even more drastie measures to deal with the critical situation. The railways are refusing ordinary goods trafh'e aiul concentrating on coal deliveries. It is estimated that the weather cost the. country 400,000 tons of coal in tlie last four days. The weather in 8outli Wales cut production by -10 per cent. and absenteeism in 8outh Yorkshire because of illness, has beeu , 40 per cent. The Daily Express says the bunker coal ban means that 200 of 400 British and foreign ships at present in British ports will be held up. The others are oil-fired. The Daily Mail says Cunarders on the Liverpool-Canada run will be immobilised in the M rsev and v ores of tramp steamers will be kept in port until the ban is lifted.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 February 1947, Page 5
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