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“...so rapidly that
by the middle of June the rise was 60 per cent, over the early part
of the year. The scarcity of coal supplies at Moji in March, 1905,
and subsequently, may be attributed principally to a greatly in-
creased demand for coal for home consumption in the various
factories and for use on board the transports and numerous chartered
ships, to the insufficiency of rolling-stock on the Kiushiu Railway,
a large part of it having been requisitioned by the Government
for military use in Manchuria, and to the calling out of the reserves
with the effect of diminishing the labour supply. These were the
inevitable results of the war, but the scarcity was still further
accentuated at the end of July by heavy floods, which caused con-
siderable damage to the mines in the northern districts of Kiushiu....”
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