Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-02-16 | Page 34 | Coal Shortage in France Huge; U. S. Mines to Relief

COAL SHORT SHORTAGE GE IN I FRANCE HUGE U. U S. S MINES VES TO RELIEF Bj Hr L Service Pittsburgh burgh Feb 15 France France needs aleast a aleast at t least tons of or a year forthe for tor tho the next lve yo years aIs according to a a. re ro report re- re port rec received hed hero from Dr Harry Barry A A. Garfield federal food tood administrator The Iho announcement la ja of ot extreme im im- because the Pittsburgh dis dis- must do Its Us pirt rt In p hel helping v B t to o supply this d deficit T French householder householders are paying S 8 SO 0 I francs n a ton or about 16 16 in AmerIcan Amerl Amery can money The Industries are charged charge d l franca a 1 ton The government Jo I 1 Is s In control of ot the coal situation The northern fields of or I France producing pro pro- about per cent of or the tho co coal coa l I I In the country were destroyed by th the retreating Germans An American America n I commission which has returned a atter tt r Investigating the coal situation i It In n France 1 l' ranee rance reports that not a e remains standing et In Jn Lon Lent tho the prin I cipal coal center As a result Franc nce 0 must look outside her borders fo fo for r I fuel Coal operators operator In Pittsburgh hav have long been predicting profitable a pro mar mar- ket for for fuel abroad