Show TURKEY TO BE BAITS BATTLE BAffLE SCENE IN Oil FIGHT FHT United States and Great Britain Chief Contenders COMPETITION KEEN Constantinople Key Point In Control of Liquid nr BY WILLIAM PHILIP SI IS Sen ice Writer Vi r CONSTANTINOPLE June A 4 4 A world war nar for tor oil 1 la Is on the thc prin principal cl cipal contenders being the United States and Great Britain and the present battlefield Is This i is neither exaggeration nor norI The most po I nation without oil at Its com I corn corn- com command mand mend In any future war ar ar would ouid be at nt the mercy of a n weak weak- weaker weaker weaker er power with Ith the tho petroleum It re- re required required re required The British navy is 30 no per cent oil It driven driven it was as as only 45 per cent be before ore the and eat wai and her merchant narine is oming bc-oming moro more and more dependent on this form o of fuel uel Control of the air and the most Ital part pan o of all military transportation by tattoo tation by truck truck-d truck truck depend pend on gas and the net t war will be decided by using gas or oil burning con con- contrivances contrivances con contrivances What Is 15 true of Great Britain Is la 0 also true o of tho the only Imore more so 50 Ditto Dillo France who knos she must roust one day face ace Germany Germany- Germany which accounts In a 0 large measure for or her heated objections to the Angora go governments government's cone concession lon In Asia Minor to the American inter inter- interests ests eats represented b Admiral Ches Ches- Chester Ches- Ches Chester Chester ter OUR OCR IH The positions of oC the United and Great Britain are ore very cry ery differ dUrer- different ent mt so tar far ar as ns the present moment Is concerned but Suite quite similar when the future futuro Is considered The United States Js is not only a stupendous oil and gas consumer but th the world a s greatest prod producer and exporter at the same sarno time Great Britain next to the United States and In and In normal times times-Rus- times Rus Russia sia Fla h Is the tho greatest petrol user u cr yet the bulk of ot her needs she must ex- ex export ex export port Of her exports reaching exports over tons a year during the some war war some 61 per cent came from the United States But American oil deposits are aro aror r rUnning out getting out getting low It Is estimated that no more than 7 7 barrels remain In the 7 1 obtainable b present methods o of extraction This oil Is is IsI I being taken from rom the ground at atthe atthe the tho rate of oC barrels I yearly This means that at the I present rate rato tho supply will be bo ex- ex ex exhausted hausted In less than 20 o sears ears I i IV IMPORTS 1 hUt OIL OlL But production and both are constant Increasing The present rate Is five lve times what It sas as In 1901 1501 and twice whit what It was as In 1909 1509 David 1 White o of the U S Geological Suncy Surey Sun ey figures that 5 bar bar- barria bar barrels ria ot of oil hae have been mined In th the United States since th the Drake well ell was drilled in I 1869 1859 59 o 43 per cent of the total toLl estimated t as is recover recoverable able It t would tike ILko but 13 years to mine the same amount at the present rate Now v while Standard Oil and other American producers arc mad madly b ly 13 delving Into American stores o of oils and th tho American government Itself Is 1 blindly lea leasing leaning or other other- otherwise otherwise wise visa disposing o of oil lands which It holds In reserve Great Britain Is rapidly reaching out for or new oil lands Whilo bile oil Is la comparatively cheap ani and easy al to obtain In world mar mar- mark markets k IttS ts Britain Is Importing most of oC oCher her oil Meanwhile she ho Is steadily staking out oil preserves all over the glob globe And Anil In spots 5 ll Ii protected by her army and navy she sha Is playing a far ar tar and ann ana extremely clever game ann ana poca as well Vb When n the tho world is drained dry of oC oil England till still I to havo have a goodly reserve resene Hence Great Britain's crafty crotty Game here Ask iny my educated Turk when Britain will ill leave have the Straits the the Dardanelles Marmora and the tho and and ho he will wilt smile and ond shake his head OF or U CLI S M Never lIever be lie says Tho The Straits are arc today the new key to Europe sOil s a oil od supplies supplied and therefore of oC Britain s flu Hu- mania Ru-mania mania the Caspian sea Persia and Central Asia A all center about Constantinople and who ho controls Constantinople con eon controls controls the outflow o of oil from these new and rich fields But But the this Straits are free Creo to 10 all shippIng like liko the open sea you say MY True But Dut like the open sea the strongest leet fleet In time o of war becomes sole possessor Great tain Bl-tain can Coln close tho Iho StraIts tomor tomor- tomorrow tomorrow row I It if occasion The American policy In Turkey Turkey- Turkey jf j In the llio oil fields and ond I elsewhere he Is h tho the policy of the open OpO door door- door on Ine T Two o TURKEY i TO BE BATTLE SCENE J IN OIL FIGHT I Continued from Page One t equal c opportunities for all And the United States Stales should be able to tomake tomake tomake make this policy slick stick But with Great Britain flung out all alt over i f the world and mid with her resources In oil oU hardly touched she would seem at present writing to ha haI have hae e I 1 I I Ia l a shade shado advantage over Uncle Sam today spending his hh resources re- re resources re resources sources like lIe a n drunken sailor Bailor |