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Show COAL FOR ONE TRIP i OF LINER COSTS $250,000 j I LONDON. March 8. Freight rater.' 'on ocean shippine from England would' be increased at least fifty per cent by a movement now In progress, says the London Times, In order to mCot the high cost of bunker coal here. Coal in .the port of London this week will cost 1 55 shillings per ton, compared with 15 to 19 shillings before the war. This coal can bo secured by tho industrial l plants In the United Kingdom for fortj .shillings per ton. Tho cost of coal consumed by thO (largest liners during tho voyage from (Southampton to New York is about 50,000, says the Times, i The quoted figures of 50,000 as the J cost of coal during a voyage of tho i largest liners presumably refers to the I cost for a round trip voyage. According Accord-ing to shipping experts, the largest Hn-I Hn-I ers, now in operation, could hardly , burn more than half that amount of coal on a one-way voyage, oven at the , high rate quoted. |