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Show RLD OIL SHORTAGE CREASES SPEEDILY the report of the Eoyal Dutch leum company for 1918 emphaeis ed on world-wide shortage of fuel ic statement is made oil can come e rescue of the world in this n in a limited sense only, according e Boston News Bureau. Report ioal production in England in 1919 le about 70,01)0,000 tons less than 3. In France important coal fields been destroyed, and in Germany tlion is smaller because of dif'l'i-i dif'l'i-i with labor. 1 oil production of the world is 40,000,000 tons, as against coal ,ge for 1919 of more than 100.-0 100.-0 tons. Eeport fays there are i!ties in transporting fuel oil bo-it bo-it is produced mainly iu coun-far coun-far distant from thoo requiring -Ui oil taiiker can make only six a year from Mexico to Holland jn carry only 7000 tons a trip.' ;' order to increase its supply of il, Eoval Dutch-Shell combine a .: control of Mexican Eagle Oil ny. ' Xew fields in other coun-Iso coun-Iso have been prospected, lorthcrn Texas, tho Eoxnnna Pern Pe-rn company, which is Mideonti-, Mideonti-, subsidiary of Royal Dutch, has t a lart'o acreage. In new fields. ,-ing Montebello district of Cah-, Cah-, no production has so far been cd. :inty of pipe line from Healdtou r . iliing, Okla., was increased from o 12,1)00 barrels a day. Pipe lino iisMng to St. Louis, distance of ' 'lc?i as finished last year and v in operation. Company's re-r re-r at St. Louis was completed and operation in September with ea-u ea-u of 12,000 barrels a day. Pipe : 'ere also completed from Coalinga ltoruia to- refinery at Martinez -bailee of 170 miles, tud from :, to Chijol, Mexico, .utn heavy war losses, the com--; tank fleet was increased slight- ounting to 2K3,746 tons at pres-;; pres-;; (tamst 235,nb-ij tons at tho be-c be-c e ot the war. "jjts of the company in Russia iiiltcred because of existing con-' con-' 1 m B:iku. Production has been up again, bt quantities of crude .,. ailahle there cannot be trans-, trans-, t present. In Rumania work undertaken to repair losses ' o.v destructiou of. company's |