Rapid Increase in the Coal Trade Last Month London, Feb. 16.
Great improvement is being shown dus Last month the output of in the British iron and steel me
steel was 761,000 tors or nearly 140,000 tons larger than that for January last year. Reports from ship-building "districts show that progress is now being made with the laying down of new ships re-eerrly contracted for, while in engineering districts of the. Mid-Is the volume of work is steadily maintained. The coal trade is also experiencing a rapid increase in demand and many more pits are at work in South Wales while there and in the northern coalfields others are reopening—British Wireless through Reuter.
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