DEMAND FOR COAL.
BRITISH MINES BUSY. (British Official Wireless.) Received April 30, 10.55 a.m. RUGBY, April 29. Half the miners of Britain who were unemployed at the outbreak of war are now at work as a_ result of the Government’s drive to increase the peacetime output of 240 million tons a year by forty million tons. The chairman of the Coal Production Council (Lord Portal) is touring the British coalfields to speed up production to meet the enormous world demand created by the blockade of German exports, which totalled twenty-four million tons a year before the war. Poland was then exporting fourteen million tons. The British Navy cut off half these quantities. France, Italy. South American countries, and overseas bunkering stations are seeking supplies, and inquiries are also coming from Canada, Portugal, Greece, Egypt and Algeria. Italy lost two million tons of German coal when the Rotterdam shipments ceased. She is now second only to France in buying from South Wales, and it is believed she would take more if it was available.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 128, 30 April 1940, Page 7
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173DEMAND FOR COAL. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 128, 30 April 1940, Page 7
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