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Show HMO SUPPLY OF FUEL IS OOESTIOI Germany Already Feeling Necessity for Selection in Its Distribution. UKRLl.V, Sept. 7. The problem of t lie uniform apportionment of coal for the coming winter lias suggccred re-trcnchiiients re-trcnchiiients in numerous directions previously thought unnecessary. The nation's natural eoal resources arc virtually vir-tually inexhaustible, but the shortage uf miners has created acute stringency and fuel nmv seems to be giving greater ' concern than food. The mines, even under war conditions, would probably have produced .sufficient to supply the nation's domestic demands, but obligatory obliga-tory shipments to neutral countries have made heavy inroads upon the nor- ( . mal supplies. COPENHAGEN, Sept. S. Difficul-"V Difficul-"V V, with tne winter supply of fuel in fcw"iany already are being felt. The Tt of voluntary or compulsory selection selec-tion of t lie fittest establishments for survival in various branches of trade and industry already has opened and business will be concentrated in these, while others will shut down, except those supplying ieat and light. Butchers Butch-ers favor keeping their places open late two afternoons a week, otherwise to close with the sun. The jewelers plan to keep open only on those days when artificial light is unnecessary, which during the North German winter are -very few. The city of Stettin already uas suspended street lighting entirely on account of lack of coal. The German press and public are for the moment far more keenly interested n problem? ot fuel and iood than in politics. Discussion of questions of constitutional con-stitutional reform, except for angry orders or-ders to President Wilson to keep out of . German affairs, has practically disappeared disap-peared from German newspapers since thr reichstag committee went home and the problem of the potato is now the topic of the day. Farmers are proclaiming pro-claiming an abandonment of the compulsory com-pulsory administration of the crop and of maximum prices and the return to the system of commercial supply anil s demand as a sole panacea to insure the necessary supply for human consumption. consump-tion. Vorwaerts demands an immediate increase in the potato ration to ten pounds weekly and a reduction in the price and declares that it is imnossible to work and sustain life on the proposed pro-posed ration of five and one-half N pounds of potatoes, 1050 grams bread, "50 grams of meat and eighty grams of fat. Vorwaerts points out that this year the scanty harvest of oats and barley will not permit of a supplementary ration ra-tion of oatmeal and grits by, which , alone the people tided over last spring. |