Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-11-25 | Page 28 | French Afraid of English Coal

FRENCH AFRAID AFRAID I OF ENGLISH W COAL PARIS Nov 24 U When tW A When When the tho people of ot Paris Paris during the cold weather last lat winter used English hard coal In la stoves to heat their apartments they began to notice explosions In the burner that oc- oc o did serious damage The Tho 1 trouble was ascribed to gas genera genera- OC 1 generated ted by the burning coal Investigations lat last Ia t summer have pro ed this thie was waa W L not the cause ot of the trouble It ia Is now declared otI I that the English miners In getting out hard bard coal used explosives which sometimes did not nol always all Explode Small fragments ments remaIn remaIn- remaIned remained ed In the coal cOlli and brought to not a II few tew domestic heating plants In the French capital