GERMANY'S PETROL SUPPLIES.

Mataura Ensign, 14 February 1916, Page 5

GERMANY'S PETROL SUPPLIES.

Afi-ririJ im to authentic ikw ; fm-it Palis, (.Tpnnauv is now jntti;';; ill*"* hu k n| Iter ptl'ol supplies if.nn Calicut, uiiilo small quantities are obtained from Hanover aiiii Al-aro :iud pr.ilubly sonic heavy made <il In.in Kuinana. It appear- thai win n the iiussiau Army had in lal! i.:c k from (idiot, ±>P petroleum we k were des'. r.,ve;l at Tnstall.wiee. ill addition to sonic .'i'jO.lH'O tons of re-.ol've I ml Mured I here. At Hor.vsloa. another in- oil ecu re. th. x wells were inn <les| roved. and i|. is fr. m hmv Iliat Ccrmauy and Au..tria are now drawing sonic .".(I.Odd tons of crude o I :i month. The well- at Hanover anl A.Kaee produce some I Kl.nto tons a year. As lar as Ruuiarh i- eon cried tint eountrv annualiy produce, abmi l.OCiO.lHill tons of crude petroleum iuoi c than sh<> rinsnais. .At' li'iu«j;li_ near y a third of tlic foreiy.n capital invested in Rumanian <ul inteiv-ts is held bv (iermanv thai country soin > I me hj uk prohibited the cxp.-i, of motor spirit ;r;'d the h:;;)ier hinds o.f pet i-Mea in. an import tin decree I rem the Al ic ' pouii of \i; hj .