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B Br By A Associated Pre Pren N EW YORK May tray 25 Sweeping denial that Great Britain wa ras seeking to monopolize the worlds world s fuel inel oil supply was made here to tonight tonight to to- night by Sir Auckland Geddes British British British Brit Brit- ish ambassador speaking at th the Pilgrims Pilgrims' dinner Statements that thai Great Britain Britain had such suh sn h intentions he added were as completely without basis in fact as charges that Britain today oday was mo moved mod d by militarist impulses im pulses pl ses I r say without t fear fear of of informed criticism crit crit- Sir Auckland declared declared that British foreign n policy is is' is directed against no man bu but is Inspired by the desire to seek peace to bul ede r rout out of or chaos to extend the tho boundaries of ot freedom to improve th tho lot of or the opposed and to increase t th the material prosperity of or the world That Is our program those thos are ara th the prin principles pes l h by which I. I as British representative Inthis inthis in tn this land am guided from day to day d y t D-t Denies Debt T P nol nl The ambassador touched also upon reports that the British government was trying to pool the war debts of or Europe and to drag drag- you tho the United States Into the pool You may seek far and wide ci lonce on which that statement could be 10 based he said sald You win will not find it If If you look closely you will find my government trying to pour oil on the troubled waters of ot Europe and you also will find onlookers who seize the oil as it is Is poured and throw It on th fires of or British anti-British feeling here I l realize that t traditional hatreds and ancient grudges die h hard bard rd I think I can make full allowances s for these things but I do plead with each and all to realize that if It they have bave oil to t jJ pour ur they will better servo serve their day and generation and anti tho the cause of ot aU all humanity humanity humanity hu hu- hu- hu manity by selecting troubled ed waters to receive their libation and avoiding fires tires In an what he characterized as wild duck publications as to the British purposes the ambassador d dealt lt first with the British n navy vy saying at white while more than a thousand ships n nI n- n I fo four battle batUe atU cruisers were er un- un tier ier construction me n armistice I was signed one cruiser the Hood too far advanced to permit cancellation was tho the only major ship completed Yo Xo Oil Monopoly J We have hac not at present a a. sl single gle capital ship building or completing and not one ship largo large or small has hall been I laid down since the tho armistice e he I said The British army and ana t air force foree had hac been even moro more drastically dealt deal with Sir Auckland continued and nd added It is no business of ot mini mIn mInto to to compare these facts with the c corre corresponding c rt action of or any other nations but I ask you ou who knew yourselves to tobe tobe be to cont contrast t them with your our own owa national acts If It you OU are tempted to think England mill The ambassador after to reports In some newspaper or maga- maga zinc that Britain has acquired an oil monopoly and proposes to hold the world to ransom said 70 0 per cents oT the hc worlds world's oil output was from American Amer Amer- lean ican can soil and 16 per cent from Mexico American merican capital controlling three- three fourths ol of the Mexican yield In I Continued on Pago Page 2 BR iSH GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENTS Continued from Page 1 S Lion he lie declared Americans were seek seek- log ing ng oil In at at least ten other countries but regardless of or these operations he concluded you have havo g 82 per percent cent of the present world supply of ot oil under u your our Production Small Now for the alleged ed oil I lis British empires empire's total production production pro pro- I Is about 2 1 per cent of ot the worlds world's supply while tho the supply o of Persian oil which Is controlled by British capital Is 15 bout about 2 pe per cent British com companies have also some somo prod pro- pro d' d U n in Burma but the total Is rel- rel rela a small In time of ot emergency British Interests in interests In- In controlled about 5 per cant cent of ot the world output Do these figures figured suggest a a. monopoly for Cor Britain Sir Auckland denied that Britain sought rights over vcr undeveloped oil and ancI a future fu future fu- fu ture monopoly through control of ot Baku Batum Palestine and nIt mu Britain owned none of oC these he hes s said jd and over o Palestine and li a. 3 would have under Turkish treaty treat S a mandate that would place her I cr In th the same samo r. r relationship la lons t toward war those inose countries as that or of the United St tes to Liberia that Liberia that of ot friend and Explain s trustee he said Hald Great Britain Iliad I td forbidden sur cs and acquisition acquisition acquisition tion of f oil rights right in Mesopotamia Mesopotamia- and arid Palestine until those nations could I ical leal with the problem themselves He j I paid aId he wished to deny en quite ca egor- egor that Cf Great Britain had com com- a pipe ipe line from Bag Bagdad to toIata Haifa Iata on the Mediterranean As to the An Persian Anglo lo agreement md nd reports that tha It Ii was based on oil oM the ambassador said that thai i I rAUs oil rights In Persia were of or I Ithe the ordinary commercial kind and and andl Mate l late o from 1901 and Inee since had had hadnot not j t cen modi modified led As to reports that I f tn was B excluding foreigners from pl il of oil in her hor territories lio te 10 said ald It was true only as to the British Isles and there only because It il had been nationalized adding that t made mado no difference In any case be- be ause English lish oil wa was a ua geological not a commercial proposition Ion tion The ambassador pointed out that re- re British n negotiations to control the th Shell SheU group of 01 oil companies had ht authoritatively denied in the so 8 of t commons Confusion Contusion had possibly he ho said from the fact tact hat t the British government owned har s 6 In the Persian Anglo company fostered to to procure procuro oil oU for tor the royal ja lavy tavy a V IThe Irbe The rue last report as to oil on with which he ho ambassador dealt was that Amer ican can ships had been denied fuel I oil at bunker hunker stations This This' was Vas true lie IC said only In that a special war- war lime Im privilege ge to all allied shipping Including British giving them access lo o 0 navy oil on stocks had been with with- rawn ra w i i r I I I I I I j I I 1 I |