OIL FROM PINE STUMP
A process for extracting crude oil and a gasoline substitute from pine tree stumps has been perfected bv a young chemistry instructor of Fulden Christian University in China. This new process is a military secret for the present but the Chinese Army is already using the gasoline substitute obtained from the hundreds of thousands of tree stumps left as a result of timber exportation from the Fukien Province's forests.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 213, 8 September 1943, Page 2
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73OIL FROM PINE STUMP Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 213, 8 September 1943, Page 2
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