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Show t AMERICA SHUT OUT OP MANY BIGOILHELDS IEnrjIand. France and the Netherlands Neth-erlands Control Outside Out-side Reserves nv H Kitv u hi r . i . iaff Ckn respondent. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. With the1 leak of probable production renched ' .n the I'nlted States, and with con-1 i uihptlon not only already well ex-f ex-f ceedlng this mnximum production but I lift essfllj by leaps and bounds. I'ncle S.mi Is face to face with the necessity ' ul quickly arranging reasonably secure k : applies from outside sources If his i it ore prosperity and ability to copi-pete copi-pete with the rest of the world Is to IapB serious tnenace. In spite of the fact that the rest of . m , world contains seven or eight times , as much oil os remains In the i'nlted Btates, but only uses about one-fourth i . much as Is consumed In this coun-' coun-' try, we find tlis doors of the big out-. out-. Side against us. Ml KICO OIL RICH. .Mexico holds h i haps ihe richest di poiitv of oil lii the western heffll-j heffll-j sphere outside the I'nlted States. ' Somewhat more than half of thin Mexican oU Is now coming to the I'nli- ed States. Dutch and British capital. however, under tht Iloyal Hutch Shell I ' interests. Is rapidly Increasing Its con- tiol of .Mexican oil properties. At leant the Mexican supply cannot I lenrded hv America as i safely dc-, , i i 'i.i i oe nu u i iv, ' nitside 1. 1 .'d.-xieo. u find t he v.oi Id's oil fields Of the first mugnl-LUde mugnl-LUde lit In upper Persia, Mesopotamia, Mesopo-tamia, Trans-Caspian Siberia and the lower Ural region. Fields of second magnitude, largely undeveloped, lie In fialp-la, Rumania, India, Burmah. tho I Milch EaSI Indies, Cblna, Formosa and Japan, and, In the western hemi-h hemi-h here. In Venezuela, '"olombln, Ecuador, Ecua-dor, Argentine and Canada. I - Mil I OUT. Surely American Initiative and capital capi-tal ought to be able to control enough li from these sources to keep I'ncle Sam well supplied. An Investigation b government authorities, however, discloses the following Kxcept in Canada, nationals of the I'r.ltert States are practically excluded :-om acquiring oil concessions in the territory, colonies and dependencies or .r lands Within the spheres of Influ-once Influ-once of Oreat Britain, France, Japan ;iinl the Netherlands. No alien may even prospect for oil in Burmah, India, Persia except l-ose employed by the Anglo-Tcrslan ! Co.. which is controlled by the Brit-j Is government. ; 1 Uovernmcntal policies excluding! Other nationals from control of oil s-ipplies are in force In Algeria. Aus-I ...ilia, Barbadde's, British Bast Africa,1 British Guiana, Fiance. French West i idles, Guatemala, Japan, Formosa. LMadagascar, New Guinea. Uganda,' jSouth Africa and Venezuela. Ownership of oil In the ground rests In the governments of Bolivia, Costa' Rica. France, Slovakia. South Afrlco.' Uganda, the United Kingdom, md ' enesuela and, in part, in argentine, Australia, British Guiana, Canada.! Mir, ml. I . Fcuador. India and Trim-1 dad Movement!) further lo vest oil I rights in the state are In progress in Colombls Mexico. Rumania. Russia,: and the Dominican republic. i ORK1GN LANDS IN iy;. I'ii.i laiid. even have Inx.ided our own preserves, British and Dutch, holdings in our California and Mid-Continent Mid-Continent fields including much Of our i ic best oil lands. Today, facing an imperative need for safeguarding future supplies, we find that we are distinctly or Id effect shut out of the regions containing one. half of the oil In sight -and In the rest or the World, SJld unb-s an open-door' policy Is maintained In th.- mandatory1 countries under the league of nations, Ihe total oil concessions held by Great I ritaln, France and the Netherlands. Wlfl exceed three-fourths of the v. orld's oil reserves outside the United: Stilt, |