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Show ' BIO WILL BACK ; i mmm gritish Government Officially Offi-cially Stands Behind the Petroleum Industry. lOSVOS, 1'h ursJay. March 15. (Cor-..' (Cor-..' ,.pi,(;or.co of tiie Associated Press.; ' '''i'.lni; t;i -'! experience of tho .'- vlvn U wjs compelled to send cnor-- cnor-- giiin i'1'0 oliicf countries in p:iy- (vr iH'-irclt'um ;uiri pc'.roicum prod-'' prod-'' i ho British nowrnnicni has adopted ;i' fly doiincd oil policy and iy o)- Mv'Vrcditfd witli financially poking .'' is e.xuectcd here to develop into '." "T-rHt powi'riul oil producing refining '.' '- nin-;port!n enterprise in the hib-' hib-' t-Vv oi ihe industry. '; fs-s concerning the government's '' . "icv luve been in i-irculytion on a num-'' num-'' ''-'"o-" occasions and recently were re- V ''',-n 'by reporis that the Iloyal Dutch-r Dutch-r Oil interests were about to take . ;'-l"rol of t'1 Mexican E:igle Oil cum-" cum-" an i invariant member of tho , Cowdray group. Will Have Oil Ministry. ' '--e "o einnient's first important - vuncnt, it was stated by authorities ' Vc will be tiie creation of a perma-"," perma-"," i' ministry, winch will be charged with ,; e ' usk of acting as petroleum adviser ' ' all departments. It will have control - the department of oil territory within -? territory and will advise and assist companies or individuals in ob-" ob-" concessions and leases in for-.'-'n' countries, as well as help them to V v;'iuot their oil business in countries ;.J j si'io the empire. The importance of -'" J." ministry will be better understood V: "tii it is realized that a large part of "C .'.undeveloped oil territory of the world 7 under British dominion, and, accord-r. accord-r. to British law, the capital of every i-, '. company operating in British terri-J" terri-J" v.'T must be not less than 60 per cent 'V Lntisii uwned, and all the control must in t life tenuis of British citizens. f- It recently became known that the r.:'" ; iiish government was buying the holU-':, holU-':, oi British citizens in tho Royal '.!' 'ruch, the ownership ot" which was then ' ".'X-ded to be t0 per cent Dutch and 40 lu--'i cent -British. Accompanying these Acumen: s were equally interesting -"--ries concerning the Shell Transport & ';:.uii:ic company's securities, whose '.t.. r ;.ersii ip Wiis closely allied to that of : h -. Koval Dutch. ;i! This Kuyal Dutch-Shell group controls t 'v.nionsc production in many lands, in- - nmny properties in the O.kiahoma- X Liisad-ToNas, California and Wyoming --Ms, and has a foreign department 7.T.; 'h tukes note of all that is going on ::( use oil world. iy ; ;. Interlocking Directorates. Intt'rloi'kintr directorates give it a com-! com-! m.uiiiirii: ui.'ice in sttch companies as the r.- if iniiMK ml company and the Anglo- . ivi'.;i!i Oil company. The British gov-t gov-t jest stockholder in the Ust-mimed company, while the Anglo-h:i Anglo-h:i mxoii ri'tioieLim company an important 1 Royal Dutch-Shell in-Uresis, in-Uresis, lias a selling contract with the 1 1 Aulo-Persian company which brings all 1!: !l:'.Lc- interests close together, u:; It is generally accepted in London that a. . v- linnsn c-ovtrninent is not altogetlier f.i-:s!:i-il wnn us 40 per cent interest in v.; lii': Koy.il Lunch and would like to have :j iii'iM: tmi)orrant financial place in the "ii n:;iiion. 1 ins sentiment, it is said, . v 15 von l'.-d by tiie most important Dutch a;i' l;i;0!de!-p, who feel they would enjoy !'! '1 Mi'eiy for their investment if t-.o Kr-i !v me financial and military a i-oTi'r- fii die imnerial government. Til'.- Person oil interests that is, the Cuu'dray companies are perhaps 'ft :h most powerful of all the British corn- ii, -j C.'nviirnv interests include inipor-.... inipor-.... i.i'i' n'i;'it!iH in Mexico, where they have t:- iit'-,-'lr;c-cl a large producing field and v , Ir'niLit it, to a high state of efficiency, 'v.. possession of the necessary re- , iii.i-ni's ;inl snins for the manufacture ir;muonation of their products, lin-v n;t,v( aiwa vs employed -American E'v, Ltolnista and drillers In their operations, "mi li.ivii iaken auvantage of the experi-I experi-I lericans from the early ui on discoveries in Pennsylvania. Li,1i now the operations in England are .Mgeiy carried on by Americans. -"10 Reach ftew Fields. , .t'ndeveloped territory to which huMMi cn ernment is said to be ii, nunc is more important than " lunuMi je Persian field. Here ,.. ..hii.i-tj'm;ui Oil company has a , .; .. " -f.uii of ..tm.OOo square miles, on 1 11 -I lonnner of wells ha'.'e been fi'.j, ;1 ami. which already has ah annual .j, "i iJi'.p'hi'.'iion of Ki,'ji,'() barrels. Geolo-rr; Geolo-rr; , "Hen; in;n. this field extends into ' i'i Mii,i, w ne re P.ritish influence is " f finniy established as to make ."I nii-HL mere only a matter of dc-; dc-; ;'iu,;r yccunns of Turkey are said it-', '"1 ' uiHury," while the Egyptian 'velojied during tiie war is con-ri con-ri ; 1 1 1 n "iMpuriance. Brit ish oil men ..'( lih I ; m erica will eventually st1)'-' "" important producing center, w " . e are turning in Lhat direc- |