Position of the Coal Strike:
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London, Sept. 23.
It would be idle for me to write sbout the coal dispute, as all news now would be out of date before this cen reach you.
The end seems not far off though the leaders remain for the most part as pig-headed as ever. In any ease there will be a shortage of coal with consequent effect on prices, for many weeks after any settlement of the strike is reached, About 500,- 000 tons of English coal is being: raised weekly, chiefly in the Mid-lurids. As for the rest'the country is depending on foreign supp! Which are now getting short, though big public undertakings have still considerable stocks of coal. "We are overcrowded with orders which we cannot supply," stid one large coal merchant. "There is very lo English coat about yet, and it becoming increasingly difficult to get supplies of foreign coal. The position shows every sign of getting worse, We hop to be able to maintain the hundredweight a fortnight allowed, but even that is not cor-tain, Everyone should make use of their permit and should put in their orders as early as possible." An-ether coal merchant with branches all over the suburbs declared that, although there was considerable: shortage in some parts of the country, London at the moment was comparatively well supplied. " "But fag for the future". he said. not prophesy. 'There are' certainly possibilities of a bad shortage in which the ordinary suburban householder may suiter worst."
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