OIL DIVINER

Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1936, Page 5

OIL DIVINER

AUSTRIAN IN ENGLAND

BELIEF IN HIDDEN RICHES

(United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph- -Copyright).

LONDON, Oct. 5

An Austrian, Professor Emerich Herzog, bolds the belief that there is far more oil and gold beneath Britain’s soil than is dreamed of—more oil than in Iraq of Persia. He means to go round England with his divining rod to survey the country’s hidden riches. He is a dowser much honoured in his own country.

“From a preliminary survey I made in England years ago,” he said. “ 1 expiect to find oil under a large area of Hampshire, Sussex and in the neighbourhood of Plymouth. And gold should he found in Wales and Cheshire -and around Warrington and Great Budworth.”

The British Government, impressed by tho reputation which has proeeded him, has invited the professor to submit a report on his methods. Professor Herzog believes he may bo of use to the British Army in Palestine, where tho operations in the interior are hampered by lack of water. Whitehall is sufficiently interested to give him a hearing. His success during tile war, when lie was official water finder for the Austrian Army, has influenced this official departure from the conventional to the novel exploration of possilnlit-

When Austrian troops on the Serbian front, were so parched with thirst that their morale suffered. Professor Herzog offered his services. He was laughed at, but he went with his divining rod to the Korst Mountains and found springs that gave water m ■abundance _____