Oil Rush Beginning In Sahara
(Rec. 8 p.m.) PARIS. March 25 An oil rush in the barren Sahara Desert may lead to United Nations action in defining the frontier between Algeria and Libya, according to French newspapers today.
Since the Sahara’s first oil well went into production last Wednesday on the Algerian side of the border, there have been applications for oil concessions covering about 50,000 square miles of Western Libya, the newspaper said.
Another result is that a group of French deputies—including two former Prime Ministers, Mr Edgar Faure and Mr Paul Reynaud, have tabled a bill in the National Assembly to turn the French Sahara into a separate territory distinct from Algeria. French Equatorial Africa and French West Africa, all of which border on it.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27928, 27 March 1956, Page 13
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