Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1919 — INDICATIONS THAT U. S. WILL FURNISH EUROPE COAL. [ARTICLE]

INDICATIONS THAT U. S. WILL FURNISH EUROPE COAL.

Washington, . July 11.—Prospects are that the American coal industry will be called upon to furnish a . minimum of twenty-five million tons and possibly forty million tons of coal for European countries during the coming year, according to a re>ort of conditions abroad by George 1. Rice, chief engineer of the bureau of mines, made public today by Director Manning of the bureau. Conclusions in the report, were reached >y Mr. Rice while a member of the special commission studying the situation in Europe.