Show British Charged d With Shutting Out American Oil Agents i I By Forbes Fairbairn Fairbairn 1 Si ic taft Staff C Correspondent Correspondent- Dispatch L L' L ONDO May 10 T American experts Eugene Sheffield and anti James Gallagher her in the service service of the Standard Oil company compan have lae been cooped lii up in Ba Bagdad for nine months awaiting awaiting- permits to lo prospect the thc Mesopotamia oil fields I I When an explanation was sought at atthe the thc British foreign office today of Britain's refusal to lo issue Sue permits Its in inthe inthe the face of or the promise last Jast October that there would be bo no rio discrimination I against oS American interests an of official ot- ot tidal said Nobody re regardless of ot nationality has haft been allowed d to prospect lu iu Mesopotamia Meso Meso- or Palestine on account of oC tho chaotic conditions in those countries and also because the mandate were not decided l l until the thc r recent cent San conference The Tho British government Jo n lUr naturally slid lid not want to create further by granting business facilities In territories with tho the mandates of ot which it might not be entrusted Sheffield and Gallagher slipped Into Without permission They were refused permits for the tho reasons I j have given hen but there was no ill Iii feeling Wo We have employed them then In an advisory ca capacity capacity capacity ca- ca to the British army In iii connection lion tion with petroleum work Vo o have done dona no prospecting ourselves our our- selves either In Mesopotamia or Pales Pales- Continued on Page lage 2 BRITISH ARE CHARGED I i i- i yn WITH DISCRIMINATION I f Continued from Page Pace 1 D s sWe I tine We are awaiting normal condl condl- J Will the prospecting prospecting- facilities then j be f reserved for tor British subjects I Ij I aged d. d o co 1 T x dont don't know but I Imagine Ine not r the official j I jh In official quarters here the alarm 1 expressed In certain American 1 tore toco over oer the world orid oil oU situation as j created by Britain's Immense gains I from the war nar are described as ungrounded un un- grounded it being being- argued th that t the Uhl ed States at present controls 80 of or the worlds world's oil supplies while Britain only controls i or or 5 per percent I ce cent Francis E. E Powell Pow president of ot the j I AVi American o-American Oil company compan gave gae the f l statement to Universal Sen Service I Ice ice IcV today toda ZIn ln In v view v hew of ot the fact that the British Brit Brit- I ish empire produces less less than 2 per ding cent of ot the worlds worlds oil supply and less than 20 per cent of or her o own n II t It would be wisdom on her part rubt to antagonize American interests Today iLy no oil corporation is allowed to c.- c. ct 11 rate vate in British territory unless 60 pe cent of the stock Is held by Brit Brit- i Xo o oil Is actually being tapped Ine In J e Nor Kor Is that country lI y to be really productive Inside of ot t th next five fhe years For ort or that period the United States State s TU remain the worlds world's chief chief- market market- I I l I j j I II I I j I I I I |