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Show SWEDEN ELECTRIFYING ROADS TO SAVE COAL STOCKHOLM. June 22 The ever increasing prices for coal and the huge freight charges now quoted, greatly : influenced the Swedish parliament to start electrifying the Swedish state railways. The amount granted for thib purpose was 23.000,000 krone, as a m first installment, and the line which i3 first to be electrified is that be- im tween Gothen and Stockholm. M Jt is expected that next year the Bf parliament will grant means for simi- m lar work on the big trunk lines of ' Malmo-Stockholm and Stockholm- Bo- i ii |