AMERICAN OIL BASE
NEAR SINGAPORE
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
WETEVREDEN, 4th February.
A Bataviau newspaper reveals that Americans of the Socony (Standard Oil Company of Xew York), are creating a colonial oil company without the consent of the Dutch Indian Government and oil tanks are being built on an island of the Riao Archipelago near Singapore for the alleged purpose of transhipping oil from Sumatra concessions to Australia/'The paper declares that the scheme seems suspicious because, instead of choosing one from a thousand islands near the East Coast of Sumatra the promoters selected the I one farthest north near Singapore. This American oil base may cause the local ' Singapore and British authorities to ask the Dutch Indian Government questions.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 6 February 1930, Page 5
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120AMERICAN OIL BASE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 6 February 1930, Page 5
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