Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1919 — COAL FROM GERMANY TO MEET SHORTAGE. [ARTICLE]

COAL FROM GERMANY TO MEET SHORTAGE.

Coal will be taken from Germany this winter to relieve the acute Shortage in central Europe and reduce ' shipments from the United States, if the plans land before the supreme economic council materialize. The council agreed that a committee will meet with the reparations copimission to evolve a plan by which immediate coal production will be inade attractive to Germany. In the opinion of the council’s members this would mean a lessening of the reparation strain on Germany through other channels. In order to facilitate the delivery of coal the council even considered special inducements of clothing and food to the German miners to get them to work. This pten superseded that of a central Europe control, discussed yesterday. The council is likely to meet next at Brussels at a date not yet fixed.