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Show FRANCE SETS LOW PRICE ON COAL FROM AMERICA PARIS. Feb 2. The French government gov-ernment Iuls fixed a new maximum price of 9 per ton for all American coal, fr-e on board, tit French Atlan- i Uc pprta This ls the lowest level American coal has reached since it be- ' gan declining i i.-toher. when tl." . figure whs $3" per ton. Representatives of the coal dealers I of Frame, who are meeting m Paris, In a national convention, paid todf - that thi government's action was In et- ! feet an BmbarfO on American coal, be-I be-I cause no American company could afford af-ford to soil at the n-w price, which af-I af-I ter the payment of freight, would in t i not more than $4 a ton-Tin- chief purpose of the present io . ting of the dealers, however, Is to protest against the action of the gov-I gov-I ernmeni (n fixing the purchase and j Kalo prices for all tho coal in France. B, |