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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 44, 15 October 1912, Page 6

In the near future the use of oil for fuel more especially in the navy, may largely increase, ami a serious consideration is the fact that the United Kingdom relies mainly for nor supplies of oil upon foreign countries. In war time should those supplies ho cut off, she might lie confronted with an oil famine, which would ho nothing less than a national disaster. i)r. Diessel, who has done so much for the internal combustion engine, has recently pointed out ah important hut hitherto neglected source of oil in English coal, which is now used so wastefully. According to a correspondent, every ton of coal would yield, when converted into coke at a moderate temperature, from 7 to .‘ls per cent of oil, similar in quality to petroleum, and by adopting the process of preparing coke advocated by him, England might be rendered independent of foreign countries for her supply of oil. This method of dealing with the coal would, ho states, at the same time confer upon us tho boon of a smokeless