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BERLIN SHIVERS IN ACUTE COAL SHORTAGE

Copenhagen, To-day.

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THE LINK IN THE GERMAN central war organiza-

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Civil workers and S. A. men, he writes, are slaving

night and day to carry coal around Berlin. saw one bank closed temporarily because, said a notice in the window, of the lack of fuel.

BITTERLY COLD

IN MAGINOT LINE

PARIS, TO-DAY.

IT IS STILL VERY COLD ON THE WESTERN FRONT AND ALMOST A GALE HAS

BEEN BLOWING

FOR

Restaurants are ice-cold and in many of them customers cluster around an electric stove in one corner. Many shops and cafes have closed and one Government department, em- ploying several hundred people, had to send them all home to work be- cause of the intense cold in the office.

The cause of all this in that Germany's capital is 40 per cent. short of its normal coal supplies, due to the overworked transport system.

The railways are busy with mill-

THE PAST 24 HOURS, MAKING AIR tary needs and the canals are frozen ACTIVITY DIFFICULT.

hard. The number of passenger trains has been cut down consider. ably in order to allow more trains for the transport of coal.-Reuter.

The French official wireless com- mentator, amplifying the brief French communique, says that French 'planes nevertheless carried out numerous re- I were active over northern and north- connaissance flights over the German eastern France-Reuter. lines.

Two dog-fights are reported, in one case a German reconnaissance machine being shot down, the third in two days. German reconnaissance 'planes

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Last night's French war communi- que stated there was local activity of reconnaissance units.-Reuter.

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This is the first time that ac- tion of this naturs hae

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