Show STANDARD OIL TRUST Can Put Its Finger to Its Nose and Mock Germany London Dec 13The Berlin correspondent corre-spondent of the Daily Chronicle in a dispatch today with reference to the petroleum question says The German consumers everywhere prefer American to Russian oil and the government hopes some method nay be discovered of reducing the specific spe-cific gravity of the Russian product and cheapening and facilitating trans pc rtation The prospects however are that the refiners at Kabu will find oriental markets for all the oil they can produce and the sale of Russian oil in Germany is diminishing I is believed that the Standard trust will not succeed suc-ceed in getting the Baku refineries into the ring M De Witte Russian minister of finance ha the final word in that matter mat-ter and is likely to forbid i As the case now stands both the German government gov-ernment and the German chamber of commerce feel powerless |