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OIL
USSIA, under the new
R. Agreement with Ger-
'many, may supply the Nazis with oil and may cease supplying the Allies.
How much will this threat. affect the outcome of the war?
Very little. A glance at the map above will show why,
-the "must" for modern war This tells where Britain gets her supplies
..
shows alternative sca routes to the normal tanker traffic. Map prepared by the Petrol Information Bureau...),
tons of crude oil, which would notį nearly sufflée to cover Germany's
Britain takes only 2.5 per cent. war-time requirementa even should of her total oil supply from she be able to reach and control Soviet Russia. She has unlimit-Rumanian oil-fields. She tried to do 50 in the last war, but we blew them ed resources elsewhere.
up. Remember also that Rumanian Russia's oil wells are too far joll must go to Germany either by the distant to aid Germany. There Danubian route or by sea through are no direct transportation the Straits of Gibraltar, commanded, routes, no means of laying down by British guns.
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DIAN
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AUSTRALIA
WORLD'S GIL PRODUCTION ** 1938
UNITED STAFET
VENEZUEL
*BUTCH FIIT HUNT
RDUMANIA LUMETRICO
„ČOLOMBIA
TRINIDAD ARE WANA
[METRIC TON)
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TERM
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4.329,000
[7:150
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the Dutch East Indies, with the 7,700,000 tons per annum; Irng, with s 4,300,000 tons; Colombla, more than 3,000,000 tons; Trinidad 2,700,000 1000 tons, and Germany a mere 256- tons; Peru, 2,200,000 tons; and others j003 tons. of less capacity,
The British Empire, United States, The total output of crude oll during and Norway, in fact own more than
six months of this the Arst
year 71 per cent of the exlating tanker
than 139,600,000 metrle tona, an in-
that,
•
Our oil supplies are also brought to us by sea. But we happen to com- The oil would have to be freighted mand the seas. And there is more across the Black Sea in waters which, than one sea route by which oil can throughout the world was no less tonnage. would quickly become infested with be brought to Britain.
So you see that in the event of war. Allied submarines-Britain has more I wonder how many London crease of 3.1 per cent, over the cor- submarines than Germany, and would motorists realise that it is possible responding period for 1038-the year the bulk of the tankers would be then have to be taken by obsolete that the petrol which they pour into for which figures in the table above British and American. Russian rutways through shattered the tanks of their motor-cars to-day are given. Britain, her allies, and her
The average tanker carries from was perhaps bubbling up from the friends, con call on the vast majority
10,000 to 19,000 tons of oil and takez solt In Louislena oll-feld not more of that production. Fonder
Hitler!
less than three weeks to cross the London and Paris quarters claim, railways at all.
than four weeks ago. In that time that the new Russo-German agree-
Italy already short of oll, has even Atlantic, about a month to go from Make no mistake about it. Oll will it has been piped, as part of a con- ment which implements their pre- war non-aggression pact, has not win the War. The propellers of stantly moving stream, several hun-had to export it from her own meagre the Persian Gulf via the Mediter taken the Allies by surprise, and that provision in their war plans had aeroplanes and batleships turn on dred miles across country to Galves-stocks to her unfortunate love child. ton, on the Gulf of Mexico, refined, Abyssinia, Japan, which uses at least already been made for such oil. The wheels of gurs, lorries, put into a tanker which takes ten or 4,000,000 tons of oil a year, produces
less than 300,000 tons of it. eventuality; nevertheless the news
feld kitchens, twelve days to transport wagons,
cross the Atlantic, makes disagreeable reading, more
Russia produces about 30,000,000 especially since its full Import cannot armoured cars and motor-cars revolve transferred to storage tanks on the yet be discerned. It is, perhaps on oli. Submarines are driven by oll. Thames Estuary, thence to an olltons a year. significant, that as yet we have not
She needs it all. filling wugon. thence again to a Every first-class ship in the Navy is station, and out of that into the tank been given the Soviet interpretation: Germany immediately hailed the fuelled by oil. There are more cil of Mr. Jones's midget motor-car. pact as another "achievement", but
an
none of the four points emphasised bunkering stations in the vorts and Persiani oil, piped 130 miles across the
rancan,
What about consumption ?'
A big bomber burns approximately gallon of petrol to every mile Bown. So if Mrs. Jones goes motoring with ten gallons in the tank she can'cover. 300 miles, whereas the bomber on ten gallons will be lucky if it has flown
Tanker Tonage How is the oil brought to much more than ten miles. It will
Britain, -how-much does a
by the Berlin press offers any parti- on the counts of the British Empire desert to Abadan, on the Persian tanker carry, who owns the tankers Use ́n ́ton of oil to cover the 300 miles!-
cular foundation for the belief that
Germany stands to gain.
The agreement was motivated by opportunism and ils lerms apparently
than there are coaling stations.
Britain controls the majority of the;
Gulf, can reach England refined und
As for the protection, of our sea At for use, within some five weeks how much does a big bomber burn-
and bow, can we protect the transport routes, we have the biggest Navy in of leaving the cartii.
to England of this vital sinew of war, the world to attend to that. That this necessity without which modern Navy can refuel on oil at almost any armles, modern navies, and modern port in the world. air fleets are powerless?
are of a similar nature. The first World output of oll outside the United
At Abadan they have one refinery point agreed upon that Russo-States and Russia, through the ten- German friendship has been finally tacles of her trade, finance, and which alone produces more thun 11,- established, but the work, now treatles in the Near East, Venezuela, 000,000 tons of Anished oft per annum.
In the Mediterranean slone, battle- thoroughly awakened to the meaning
Those Bre the questions which ships cùn refuel at Cyprus, Port Said, the assurance has no ntoral meaning. Persian Gulf, and such far-flung un- That refinery alone could supply the spring to one's mind. And here are Alexandria, Tripoll, and the French of a dictator's promise, realises that Canado, the Dutch East Indies, the It is one of the largest in the world.
ports. Under the new Turkish Pact world considered producers as British India, bulk of Great Britain's commercial some of the answers. Cynically, but factually, the remarks that though perhaps bearing British Burma, Egypt, and British requirements.
The total tonnage of the world's and the guarantee to Grecce, thore the same markings, the tiger and the Borneo.
There are two other great refineries Lanker fleet for this year is 11,436,-harbours would also be open. At ent can never lie down together.
There is an Implied threat in the The normal peace-time ell con-fat Curaeno and Arubis, in the Dutch 980. Of that colossal total, Great Port Suez, there are some of the big- second point which states that Ger-sumption of the United Kingdom for West Indies, both bandling mainly Britain and her Dominions own 3-gest oil storage tanks in the world. many and Russia will not allow fur-
Dil, One deals with 264,341 tons; the United States 2,000,- ther interference in eastern European commercial purposes is more than Venezuelan questions, but as the Allies are irre 12,000,000 tons. That rate of con- some 20,000 tons of olf a day, the 780 tons, and-surpricingly-Norway vocably committed to such inter-sumption has increased by from other more than 25,000 tons. These comes third with 2,117,381 tons..
Holland is fourth with more than ference, this clause can have no mean 500,000 to 000,000 tons every year. three great plants can supply more ing beyond mutual comfort and And there is no dimeulty in getting than twice as much oil as we need half a million tons of tanker shipping. wishful hoping by the contracting
it to England.
for our normal requirements.
1Japan has 429,000 tona. Ilaly 428,-) parties.
The desire for the re-establishment of peace, the plaintive plea that the Allies should give up "a futile and hopeless struggle against Germany" can be placed in the same category, and both Herr von Ribbentrop and M. Molotoff must have had their tongues sticking hard their checks when they signed such clause.
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The second threat, contained Point Four, that should "the war- mongers" of the Allies prevail, Germany and Russia will "know how to meet the situation" is clearly a piece of Hitler bombast and bluft- a bombast which suffered a cold reception when he spoke at Danzig bluff that has now a week ago, arid
But of that vast consumption of ofl Products less than 8 per cent, is pro- duced in Britain.
Our main supply comes from the United States, the Dutch East Indies, Venezuela, and Iran, the new name for old Persin,
German Position
GREATER Germany consumes 7,000,000 tons of'oll a year
in peace time. She produces a little over one-third of it herscik.
The addition of the oil in Austria, and, even her superlatively ingenious been called by Britain and France methods for making synthetic oils,
The agreement has great potential
"nuisance value', but ils practical cannot bring her oli suppiles up to Interpretation by Russia is more likely anything like her peace time require- to give Hitler a headache than to placements. the Allies at a material disadvantage In their fight against Nazism. Ger- many appears to be receiving from Russia some of her own medicine first prescribed and administered by
In all she' produces about, 2,400,000 tons of olf a year, including synthello alcohol. petrol, benzol, and motor The rest she used to get from
the gangsters of Chicago, and which | America, the Dulch Indies, Iran and Iller apparently believed he had Rumania. The first three sources of patented.
Eupply were cut off the moment war was declared..
But do not· exaggerate / "ho im- portance of Itumania's oil output. It Is not' nearly so important as the ordinary man in the street imagines.
In the long run the Allies may have a much to fear from Soviet Communism as they have to-day from Hitleriam." Russia has prac- tically nothing' in common with Western democracy, and now that she has entered game of interna- | tional politics and diplomacy on The present output is about 0,000,000 equal terms--bombers, machine guns, tanks and bayonets—she may oven- tually prove ne great a threat to our cherished democracy as does Nazim precisely how she is going to play to-day. So for, she has played her her cards which intrigues the world Bursa- cards with consummato akiii-iho akili to-day. But so far as the of a player who cuts into the game German agreement is concerned, it after watching his opponenta can fairly safely be described as technique for a long time. Rumia's another "scrap of paper."
real bid has yet to be made, and it
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
laft mat. After teachin' her how to hao a field of corn, drive a thresher, shoe a home, this is all the thanks 1 get!!!
Our ships can bunker at every big- port in India, at Rangoon in Burma, at every big harbour in South, East Land West Africa,
Nothing To Fear TRINIDAD, in the West Indies,
produces nearly 3,000,000- tons of its own, oil, Canada nearly a million tons, Egypt more than a |quarter of million tons. So you see
that no British ship need fear an oil. shortage on the seaways of the world. It has been estimated in Parliament that Britain would so 4,000,000 gallons of oil a day during the war.
What of the stores in Britain 7 To-day, the reserve has been cons!- derably augmented.
It is obviously impossible for me to state what those reserves are. But it may be tairen for granted that they are large, that they have "been. | aroassed with foresight against emer- gency and that they cater for the needs of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force,
Although a big bomber will burn a ton of fuel for every 300 miles flown, "you can do a lot with 1,000 bombers in the air if you have 1,000,- |000 tons of petrol in reserve and the best aero engines in the world. At a rocant text a Bilish zero engine, trled against the best 'Gorman model, ...was running splendidly after 100.
hours. The German had, brokenį. I down at the sixtieth hour,
So the man who dreams of winning: awar against the British Empire" would do well to ponder that, warn? cannot be made without oil or fought without oll. But they can be finished 3: by oil.