London, Dec. 5.
Britain gathered the first fruits from the Government's decision to seize German exports today with the announcement of new contracts from Italy and Spain for British coal.
Spain decided to place coal contracts with South Wales in exchange for iron ore and confirmed an order for 25,000 tons of Welsh coal. Italy ordered 4,000,000 tons of coal from Britain, half of which will be produced in South Wales and the other half at Durham.
Plans were being completed for the reopening of mines in South Wales to fulfill contracts lost by Ger-norly. Already 5,000 more Welsh miners are employed than there were during September
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