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Show Tarakan Oil Would Be Asset To Allies Invasion of the Island of Tarakan, Tara-kan, off Borneo, on May 1, by Australian troops and a contingent of Dutch soldiers, is designed to recapture a source of oil that is of such superior quality that it can be pumped, ready to burn, directly into a ship's tank. , Since the fuel now being used in the Far East must be brought thousands of miles from the Unit ed States or the Near East and rehandled many times, there is obvious ob-vious advantage in the seizure of Tarakan wells which, it is estimated, esti-mated, will supply about ten per cent , of the oil we need to carry on the war against Japan. |