RUSSIA'S FUEL SHORTAGE
GOVERNMENT MEASURES. In tlie Duma Committee at St. Petersburg in March, during the discussion of the shortage of fuel in Russia, the Government declared that it did not itself intend to work the naptha lands, but proposed to lease oertain of them to _ the State railways, and also to a fevr private 1 nilways which had expressed a wish to obtain naptln on their own account. The Ministry of Marine wa3 considering the possibility of making use of tlio liaptha. lands for the needs of the Navy; while tho Ministry of -Commerce had already taken measures with the object of leasing all availablo naptha grounds by April 28 to the highest bidders in ease a further shortage of coal should arise. The Government also had a plan bv which all railways having their termini on the coast of tho lialtio or tho Black Sea should be supplied with coal_ from abroad, so that the Russian coal in tho possession of the railway companies or already ordered by them should be available for private industries. The Government further proposed to attempt to place Siberian coal on the market in European Russia.—Renter.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1741, 5 May 1913, Page 9
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193RUSSIA'S FUEL SHORTAGE Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1741, 5 May 1913, Page 9
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