OIL DEALS

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 July 1920, Page 2

OIL DEALS

FRANCE AND BRITAIN. [Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.] Received this day tit 10.40 a.m. LONDON, July 24. The Franco-British til agreement provides that in Ronmania the two Governments will support the respective nationals with a view to acquisiti n of the former German oil interests and other concessions, all shares in the firmer being half French and half British ; in Russia the two Governments to support the respective nationals in acquiring concessions in Mesopotamia, France to receive 25 per c nt. of the cut'D'it at market rates, < r 25 per cent, of the shares in private cnuparties. The agroement also provides fir the construction of pipe lines ti raihvvs for the transoortation of the oil through the French sphere to iVm Mediterranean! In the NortJi African an rl other French colonics France will give facilities to "he Franco-British groups, Britain giving n, advantage in British Crown colonies.

FATHER JERGER. MR HUGHES'S WARNING. "THE LAW OF THE LAND." (Australian and H.'/s. Cable Association.) Received this day at 1.20 p.m. SYDNEY, This Day. Mr Gordon Wesche, the manager of MacDonald and Hamilton, agents for the P. and 0. Company, says that the Melbourne agents are interviewing- Mr Hughes, with a view to having Father Jerger placed ashore at Fremantle.

Mr Hughes, speaking at Bendigo, said that Father Jerger's deportation had been ordered by the .law of the land. He added, "Let not either shipping companies or the waterside workers (■isobey," It is announced that the P. and 0. Company is likely to apply for the cancellation of the waterside workers' registration in the event of the Federation bovrottino- the steamers. SYDNEY, This Day.—Another letter, which was written to a pnrisMoner by Jerger in 1918 and sent to Father Peter McDonnell, states that since the hitter's departure, the Marrickville parish church had been converted into a German propaganda -'house. i