RECONSTRUCTION OF THE COAL INDUSTRY
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. F. Bernhard, by " distillation plants " apparently means low-temperature carbonization. Now it is very tempting to make such rosy calculations as he does, with plenty of noughts at the end, but is low-tempera. ture carbonization a commercial success ? At Leeds last month three interesting and detailed papers were presented by eminent experts who were not interested in the coal trade or in low-temperature carbonization. This was at the annual meeting of the Society of Chemical Industry. The opinions expressed were decisively to the effect that this system has at present not " arrived." In your paper a few weeks ago Mr. Philip Gee pointed this out in detail, and I have seen no valid criticism of his statements.—I am, Sir, &c., MANAGING DIRECTOR.
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