KAISER'S OIL FOUNTAIN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXI, Issue 16690, 21 July 1916, Page 2

KAISER'S OIL FOUNTAIN.

IT HELD 38,000 GALLONS

A remarkable discovery has just been made in the Kaiser's Palace at Corfu, the island recently occupied by the Alhes.

In the cellar of the famous palace was found a huge tank, some seventy feet square, containing oil for German and Austrian submarines. For a lon^ time our naval men were puzzled as to the source of oil supply for th<e U boats, and though some of these sources were unear bhed, it was not until the occupation of Corfu that the main supply was" found and cut off.

A further search revealed the fact that the Germans had laid a two-mile pipe-line which connected the tank at Corfu with a sunken oil tank out &t sea.

This oil supply " must havel taken many months to build up, and was, of course, don© before the war, but so'secrctly that no one suspected its existence. Shortly after the Kaiser bought his palace in the Mediterranean he sent German engineers there to make extensive "alterations". The "alterations" resulted in a 38,000-gallon tank of oil for the use of his ships in a war which was sprung on him by surprise— so lie says.