COAL FROM AMERICA.
BRITAIN’S LOST TRADE. London, Feb. 28. In the of Commons, at question time, Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, Seoretary for Mines, said that the quantity of coal exported to Europe during the year ended June, 1918, was 476,000 tons from the United States, 100,000 tons from Australia, and 28,000 tons from China. The amounts in 1920 were:—From the United. States 13,383,000 tons; from Australia, 113,000 tons; from ChinU, unknown. Mr. Bridgeman said that he was not without hope of our recovering the coal market from the United States. He was aware of the rumors of the imminence of a coal strike, as the precursor of a general strike, with the view of an attempt at revolution, but he deprecated attaching importance to them. He said that stocks of coal above ground were normal for the time of the year.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1921, Page 10
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141COAL FROM AMERICA. Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1921, Page 10
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