Show Europe Needing Coal Refuses to Hau I It c Declares U. U S. S Expert oo Ii Million Tons TOIlS Must lust Be Bc Secured From U. U S. S Say Sav 5 Hc He But Ships of Nations Needing Supply 1 p Most l Engage in Oilier Other Trade ll fly Universal Uni Service J ASHINGTON Sept 28 There 8 There is is much anticipatory apprehension W WASHINGTON strike will he be coal conI V V here that one result of ot the tho British railway a t f ft nine mine ii il iq Europe J of oC the countries in iii Europe There has been a coal shortage in many Relief fr from this shortage has 1138 been heeti dependent d ever cr since the war started obtainable from Great Greal Britain and the I Stales u upon on Vow Now OV supply that no flO B British ships hips arc aide able to leave Ica English ports by govern govern- meat Sint r orders order the llie countries es of or continental Europe from shortage t C fuel will be J dependent wholly upon such SUCIL relief relict as they can obtain from I the United Slates Britain But with the tho ships of or Great taken out o oC the thc carrying trade of ot the tho additional strain will willIe be Ie world orld great preat put on the tho American merlean merchant marine an and there will willIe be Ie 1 loss less American tonnage tonnage ton Lon carrying than has been m nage c for fot coal co available a h heretofore re Z i Foreseen J en enIt t almost certain therefore K It will bo great distress In the h t there continental countries of ot Europe during during dur dur- of lade lack ing tag the coining winter wiMer because o of or coal Even Enn if Ir there had he been en no strike in Britain and British ships had continent continent conti conti- continued to Lo supply coal coil to the tho nent net in the tlc s amo same quantity the they have tho situation sit been doIng for tho paUL past year rear on the tho continent dunn the tho winter for lack o of sufficient fuel still would uld have hao become acute Great Britain's annual production of ot coal had fallen oft off from SIH busio tons Ions lo io tons Great Britain's war pre-war export of or coal ran up to 76 G- G but her estimated po postwar pot post tar t- t St 81 t tons war ar exports export of or coal have not nol been more more than tons The Tho Tho decline l In German coal production has much greater reater than that of or Great Britain Brit Brit- ain air It is estimated by the shipping board that to avert a world shortage c America Americas of s should shoud export upwards up to tons s of coal Tho nations nation's war pre ex export ex- ex port of or coal was less than titan tons rho Tho excess over o war pre-war exports supplied b by this countr country coun Coon which must be tr try If the world shortage is to be made tp up is tons This shortage cannot b be met meL To Tomake Tomake Tomake make up the deficiency America would next few Cew within tho the have to export months more moro than four times as 13 much coal as ts it ever exported during an Ul ento entire en en- tire t-o year I y Not h Tonnage C There was not enough h tonnage available available avail avail- able rohlo to meet this great demand oven I before the stoppage of British shipping that tho the will be less now nov ii and nd d there American merchant marine because of or the up tie of Brit British sh shipping will be immediately additional addi- addi called upon to carry donal quantities of or foodstuffs of tho world conditions No 0 closely closel absorbed tho the i atten- has as Jas more board tron tion of or the American shipping shipping- than this matter of coal for Europe in- in As a result of the comprehensive 3 of or tho situation made by Director of ot Division of or Operations John l Ros and the head of tho the export coal department of ot this division dl H. H 3 r. r Y Saint It is manifest that the European Euro Euro- Euro Euro- v penn n nations are arc doing little or nothing nothIng noth noth- ing lnE to relieve relfe the tho situation b by using their own tonnage Tho nations which are doln doing the least moreover are the ones that are arc re able to do most The Thc outstanding fact brought out by bytho tho tle t c shipping boards board's investigation on is that hat the tho European nations are using t their clr own wn tonnage in trades best suited I t to o c. their maritime interests and ant in competition corn com petition p with shipping board vessels com I leaving Uncle Sam to carr carry tho the less profitable coal cargoes for Cor the relief 9 of the tho suffering peoples In n n. n his report to superior Mr Ir Saint elaborated this point as follows It It would Would teem seem cognizance must be betaken betak betaken tak taken n b by the shipping board of or this sit sit- crt rn f i u n b u to bring Europ European n tonnage tinna c into this thiS- work of or distributing Ling coal to European ports The statistics compiled b by this de department department department de- de show that Ital Italy is practically the only European government g which using its own vessels In carrying coal from tho the United States rr Italian relief XIn 1131 In the t-hc month of or Jul July twenty Italian vessels sailed from American sports ports orts with coal You will notice that Norwegian Nor British and Greek ships were plying In the British trade which toda today is considered a n. profitable oneAt one At the thc time the shipping board was wash h having d demands mands made upon it to carr carry coal to Greece Switzerland and tho the Scandinavian countries as well as to toS toS S South th America Coal Carry In K Evaded d i ery Very heavy demands arc being ma made c upon pon the shipping board to carr carry coal to tov Denmark Our tabulation sh shows 0 9 that rio ilo Danish vessels are arc carrying coal ebal to Denmark but a number of D' D Danish ships arc are carrying coal from American ports to South America w which is IB in a a. profitable trade trado when the return cargo car situation is taken into consideration It will be noted that Norwegian and Italian Hallan vessels are arc under charter to I carr carry coal to Gibraltar when the needs of ot their own countries are large Large demands have hao been made malJe upon American tonnage to carr carry coal to the tUo Netherlands and during during- July seventeen sev en enteen teen American vessels sels sailed from American ports to this country i During Durins tho the same Barno period only three Dutch ships carried coal to their home borne ports while two Swedish h and one Nor Norwegian or- or 1 gian ship wore were in the Dutch coal trade Requests Bequests have hac been made on the shipping board to carr carry coal to Sweden and rid as many as cloven cn steamships hips have sailed in ono one month for that countr country Tet Swedish l ships In that trade have havo no a a. month I With yI the increasing demand upon America to supply Europe with coal and to carry it Il In American bottoms a and d with all the demands predicated upon tho increasing distress in various European E countries it would woul seem that immediate l steps must be taken to bring about bout an effort on the part of the tho vanous van vari ous countries to help hell themselves in t this is matter of coal distribution In view of ot the fact tact that the tho shipping ship ship- ping pinS J b board ard cannot meet tho the dem demands th that t ate arc rc being made it in upon I w ulao of the fact that our vessels arci arc i now being used to relieve o distress In Europe where the distress is greatest I and rid relief relict most urgent It seems im un- un I p e that tho European nations which hl h arc are facing a coal famine should do dp something to relieve the situation b b- by y placing some of ot their own ov tonna tonnage e In ln the American coal coM trad trade even o tho though that trade is le less s pro profitable Jt bl e ethan than tho the ones In which th these Bo vessels have ha been placed to compete with the now fleet of the United States shipping board Analysis From the analysis made mado b by Mr 1 Saint it appears that l the tho people of or France BeJ Belgium ium Holland Hal Ital Italy Denmark Norway Norway Nor Nor- orwar or- or way war Sweden Spain and Switzerland will be bo among amon- the ones that mu must l suffer suf suf- fer most and that tho the shortage o will fall faU with no weight upon Germany Hun AUstria Hungary Austria including C Checho slovakia and Ju Jugo o The Thc total requirements of or the tho world n next winter have hao been placed by b this authority At t tons otis of oC which tons ton a can be supplied b by countries other than the United States Stales If tho United States I is to furnish the Iho remaining SI tons it would require l cars of or fifty tons capac capacity l each cach to meet the trains of fin fifty cars each Twelve thousand five hun hundred red vessels of tons capacity each would bo ho necessary to carr carry tho the cargo cago across s tho ln one trip More ore than men would have oto ha to dig diJ coal at top top- top speed speed for or a year car to produce pro duce tho the tonnage I |