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British Curtail Use of Power, Conserve Coal

Power Crisis

LONDON, Monday, Feb. 10-Britain's Labor government throw the switches cutting off electric power to thousands of industries today in order to heard the nation's dangerously depleted coal stocks against the winter's end.

Industrial wheels stopped turning at Midnight in 44 of 64 counties in England and Wales, crippling Britain's vital export campaign in what newspapers described as an "industrial Dunkerque."

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