Show FEAR COAL SHORTAGE IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA Should till the present war In the tho Balkans Balkans Bal Bal- kans Jans continue continuo man many months It Is feared that Odessa south Russia will experience ex ex- a severe ere coal shortage during tho the coming cominS winter o ln owing to the tho impossibility Impossibility Im Im- possibility of securing English h coal and to the fact that tho south Russian and antI Polish mines have made large contracts contracts con- con tracts with Ith the north of or Russia and havo have therefore at present no surplus to sell Formerly Jot St Petersburg and tho the Baltic provinces Imported most of their supplies from the United King dom dorn After Arter the strikes In England last spring however these contracts were transferred to the tine Polish and south Jou h Russian coal mines which now now- have havo no surplus for Cor those buyers buer who delayed de- de de delayed e- e making contracts until the autumn Tho amount taken by the provinces pro alone aono is reckoned at nt 7 tons Recently an Odessa strip ship agent endeavored ored to purchase a It reserve of or 7 72 tons of ot Donetz coal for hunkering bunkering his ships and was unable to obtain this comparatively comparative small quantity Bids are coming in from for south Russian coal but butare are arc being refused Report I |