Show I I 1 CONTEST OIL FIELDS I Ia a C p I 5 0 k 1 c I t A R TE E N 1 I A N J P L A T A 00 a c Y k s f 1 The British ambition to control the oil all supply of or tho the world suffered a I ell slight ht setback recently when the bolshevik bol bol- he i made a sudden lungo lunge down the Caspian coast and nd seized tho the great Baku oil fields lelda which tl o British had appropriated The red troops troop an official statement says faS captured poo s of ot benzine ben bon zine zIre a equals pounds 25 of kerosene of at gasoline of ot I lubricating oil of or orI mazout and 80 So of ot crudo oil I The Baku oil fiel fields s bid fair to bo be a a. future cause of or trouble as u It lt Is not considered likely the British will quietly qui etl etly permit this rich source of supply to fall tall Into the hands of or others As Asa a I. I matter m of ot fact t tho the British still hold which tho the Batum Buku railway leads directly from rota the Black sea to the thc Baku fields I The land WI S ts not strictly Russian although it was under Russian It before the czars czar's overthrow o consists of R Russian lan Armenia and the new republic of or or Gc-or Georgia la When the bolshevik mado made their re reI recent recent re- re cent sally the British ha had small forces I at nl Datum Batum and Baku as well wen as a n. fleet Jeet at Batum Datum and appeared to be getting I a 0 grip on tho the country |