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USSIA, under the new

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many, may supply the Nazis with oil and may cease supplying the Allies.

How much will this threat affect the outcome of the

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Another Scrap of Paper

Very little. A glance at

-the "must" for modern This tells where

war

Britain gets her supplies

---- shows alternative sea routes to the normal tanker, traffic. Map prepared by the Petrol Information Bureau.)

the map above will show tons of crude oll, which would not why.

Britain takes only 2.5 per cent. of her total oil supply from Soviet Russia. She has unliniit- ed resources elsewhere.

Russia's oil wells are too far distant to aid Germany. There are no direct transportation

IT is easy to believe, as ungmetal routes. no means of laying down

London and Parts quarters cinim. pipes.

already been made for such

How DO

nearly sufice to cover Germany's

war-time requirements even should) she be able to reach and control

Rumanian oll-fields. She tried to do o in the last war, but we blew them Remember also that Rumanian

up

oil must go to Germany either by the Danubian route or by sen through |the Straits of Gibraltar, commaunded.

by British guns.

1939 Increase IN addition to them

we can obtain oil

from other countries:

the Dutch East Indies, with the 7,700,000 tons per annum: Iraq, with

its 4,300,000 tons; Colombla, more than

AN

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AUSTRALIA

World's OIL PRODUCTION m (930

COUNTRIES UNITED STATES

US 3 WINE SURITALIN) VENEZUELA

METRIE LAND REGNON, NE

179.431_000

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(1.34€ 66%

MASTORE

MOUSIRMIA

MEXICO

KARAO

· COLOMBIA

1173,000

1992).

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BRITTEN TROIA A OVENA

BASTIJN BORNEO

14000

CANADO GERMANY

FORAND

TOTAL

LIR3,000 ZİOLÉTRON

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3,000,000 tons; Trinidad 2,700,000 1000 tons, and Germany a mere 250,- tons; Peru, 2,200.000 tons; and others 003 tons.

Our of supplies are also brought of less unpacity.

The British Empire, United States, to us by sea. But we happen to com-

The total output of crude oil during and Norway, in fact own more than mand the seas.

And there is more the first six months of this year 71 per cent. of the existing tanker than one sea route by which oli can throughout the world was no less be brought to Britain,

than 139,009,000 metric tons, an in- tonnage.

of

been given the Soviet interpretation: win the War. The propellers of stuntly moving stream, several hun-stacks to her unfortunate love-chlid, the Persian Gulf via the Mediter

that the new Russo-German agree- The oil would have to be freighted ment which implements their pre-across the Black Sta in waters which war non-aggression pact, has not would quickly become infested with taken the Allies by surprise, and that Allied submarines—Britain iuus more I wonder how many London crease of 3.1 per cent, over the cor- So you see that in the event of war provision in their war plans had submarines than Germany, and would motorists reallse that it is possible responding period for 1938-the year the bulk of the tankers would be

an then have to be taken by obsolete that the petrol which they pour into for which figures in the table above British and American, eventuality: nevertheless the news Russian railways through shattered the tanks of their motor-cars lo-day are given. Britain, her allies, and her

was perhaps bubbling up from the friends, can call on the vast majority The average tanker carries from makes disagreeable reading more poland, where. there are

|soil in a Louisluna oli-field not more.

that production. Tondor that, 10,000 to 15,000 tons of all and lakes especially since its full import cannot

rallways at all

than four weeks ago. In that time Hitler!

less than three weeks to cross the Italy already short of oil; has even yet be discerned. I la, perhaps

Make no mistake about it. Oil wit has been piped, as part of a had to export it from her own meagre Atlantic, about a month to go from signifcant, that as yet we have not

dred miles across country Galves- Germany Immediately hailed the aeroplanes and tatteships turn onton, on the Gulf of Mexico, refined, pret as another "achievement", but all. The wheels of guns, lorries, put into a tanker which takes ten or none of the four points emphasised transport wagons, feld kitchens, twelve days to cross the Atlantic, by the Berlin press offers any part-moured cars and motor-cars revolve transferred to storage tanks on the an oil cular foundation for the bellef that on oil. Submarines are driven by oil, Thames Estuary, thence to Germany stands to gain.

Alling wagon, thence again to #4 Every first-class ship in the Navy 18 station, and out of that into the tank The agreement was motivated by opportunism and its terms apparently fuelled by ull. There are more cil of Mr. Jones's midget motor-car. are of a similar nature. The first bunkering stations in the ports and Persian oll, piped 130 miles across the point-ngreed upon-is-that-Russa on the coasts-of-the-British Empire, desert lo: Abadan, on the Persian

than there are coaling stations.

Gulf, can reach England refined and nt for use, within some five weeks Britain contrais the majority of the world output of all outside the United of leaving the earth.

At Abadan they have one refinery States and Russia, through the ten- tacles of her trade, finance, and which alone produces more than 11, treaties in the Near East, Venezuela,000,000 tons of falshed oil per annum Canada, the Dutch East Indies, the It is one of the largest in the world.

Abyssinia, Japan, which uses at last 4,000,000 tons of oll a year, produces

ces than 300,000 tons of It.

Russia produces about 30,000,000 tons a year.

She needs it all.

ranean.

What about consumption 7

A big bomber burns opproximately a gallon of petrol to every mile flown. So if Mrs. Jones goes motoring with ten gallons in the tank she can cover ¡300 miles, whereas the bomber on ten

sta

Tanker Tonage How is the oil brought in gallons will be lucky if it has flown tanker curry, who owns the tankers, use a ton of all to cover the 300 miles! Britain, how much does a much more than ten miles. It will, how much does a big bomber burn

As for the protection of our and how, can we protect the transport routes, we have the biggest Navy in to England of this vital strew of war, the world to attend to that. That this necessity without which modern Navy can refuel on oil at almost any armies, modern navies, and modern port in the world. air fleets are powerless?

In the Mediterrancon alone, battle- the questions which

ships can refuel al Cyprus, Port Said,

German friendship has been finally established, but the world, now thoroughly awakened to the meaning of a dictator's promise, realises that the assurance has no moral meaning. Cynically, but factually, the world remarks that though perhaps bearing the same markings, the tiger and the ent can never la down together.

There is an implied threat in the considered producers as British India, bulk of Great Britain's commercial some of the answers,

The total tonnage of the world's ports. Under the new Turkish Pact second point which states that Ger- British Burma, Egypt, and British requirements.

and the guarantee to Greece, those There are two other great refineries tanker fleet for this year is 11,430,- tharbours would also be open. At many and Russia will not allow fur- Borneo, ther interference in eastern European

Port Suez, there are some of the big

Those

Dre

Persian Gulf, and such far-flung un- That refinery nione could supply the spring to ene's mind. And here aft Alexandria, Tripoll, and the French

Of that colossal total, Grest

The normal peace-time ull con-jat Curacao and Aruba, in the Dutch 890. questions, but as the Allies are Irresumption of the United Kingdom tor | West Indies, bath handling mainly Britain and her Dominions own 3gest oil storage tanks in the world, vocably committed to such inter-commercial purposes is more than Venezuelan oll. One deals with 264,341 tons; the United States 2,800,- ference, this clause can have no mean 12,000,000 tons. That rate of con- some 20,000 tons of oil a day, the 780 tons, and-surprisingly-Norway ing beyond mutual comfort and sumption has increased by from other more than 25,000 tons. These comes third with 2,117,381 tons, wishful hoping by the contracting 100,000 to 400,000 tons every year. three great plants can supply mere Holland is fourth with more than And there is no difficulty in getting than twice as much oil as we need half a million tons of tanker shipping. it to England.

for our normal requirements.

partles.

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 Into their checks when they signed such clause.

a'

The second threat, contained in Point Four, that should "the war- mongers" of the Allica prevail,

Germany and Russin will "know how

to meet the situation" is clearly a

But of that vast consumption of all products less than 8 per cent, is pro- dused in Britain.

Our main supply comes from the United States, the Dutch East Indies, Venezuela, and Iran, the new name for old Persią.

German Position

REATER Germany consumes 7,000,000 tons of all a year

plece of Hitler bombast and druff; | in peace time. She produces a little

a bombast which suffered a cold

reception when he spoke at Danzig

over one-third of it herself.

a week ago, ond a bluff that has now The addition of the all in Austrio, been called by Britain and France. and even her superlatively ingenious The agreement has great potential methods for making synthetic oils, "nulsance value", but its practical

Interpretation by Russia is more licely eannot bring her oll supplies up to to give Hiller a headache than to place anything like her peace time require- the Allies at a material disadvantage | menta,

In their fight against Nazism. Ger-

many appears to be receiving from

In all she produces about 2,400,000

Russia some of her own medielne tons of oil a year, including synthetic

Arst prescribed and administered by Ute gangsters of Chicago, and which Hilier apparently believed he had patented.

petrol, benzol, and motor alcohol. The reat she used to get from Amerles, the Dutch Indies, Iran and Rumania. The first three sources of supply were cut off the moment wer was declared.

But dề not exaggerate the im- portance of Rumania's oil output.. It

In the long run the ́Allies may have as much to fear from Soviet Communism as they have to-day from Hillerism Russia has Prac tleally nothing in common with Western democracy, and now that site has entered the game of interna- is not nearly so important as the tional politica and diplomacy on ordinary man in the street imagines. equal terms-bombera, machine guns, The present output is about 6,000,000 tanks and bayonets-she may even-

tually prove so great a threat to our real bid has yet to be made, and it cherished democracy as does Nazlam to-day. So far she has played her her cards which intrigues the world in precisely how the is going to play cards with consummate skill...the skill of a player who cuts into the game

watching " hla opponents technique for a long time, Russia's

afler'

today. But so far as the Russo- German agreement is concerned, it another "scrap of paper. Lenn fairly safely be described' as

|Japan has 420,000 tons. Italy 420,-

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"My wifo's left mo! Aftar toachin' har how to hoo a field of

Our ships can bunker at every big port in India, at Rangoon in Burma, at every big harbour in South, East and West Africo.

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 use 4,000,000 gallons of oli a day during the war.

What of the stores in Britain? To-day, the reserve has been consi- derably augmented.

It is obviously impossible for me to state what those reserves ore. But it may be taken for granted that they are large, that they have been Jamassed with foresight against emer- gency and that they cater for the needs of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force.

A

Although a big bomber will burni ton of fuel for every 300 miles down, 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 nero engines in the world. At a recent test a. British nero engine, tried against the best German model,! was running splendidly after 100 hours. The German had. broken down at the sixtieth hour.

So the man who dreams of winning. ja war against the British”. “Empire would do well to ponder that ware cannot be made without all or fouglif

by, oll.:

corn, drive a threshor, shoe a horse, this is all the thinks I get without oll, But they can be finished