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Show OUESTFOR OIL I IS WORLD-WIDE; Deserts. Tropics and Polar Regions to Be Searched for Deposits t LONDON. Feb. 11. Intensive operations op-erations in exploration and development develop-ment of oil lands was urged by George Howell, publicist and economist, in a recent address in this city. He was Of the opinion that vast new petroleum petrol-eum fields might be found and given to mankind by the "industrial triumvirate trium-virate the geologist, tho chemist and the loisinesa man." Desert lands, the tropics and even regions near tho poles must be searched, he declared. In the quest of oil. upon which is based the de- I velopment of manifold industrial ac-j tlvltlcs. He said the northern rc-fftona rc-fftona of Cunada were helnp thorough-! ly explored and added the flunkii of' the Himalayas and the Antilles presented pre-sented interesting prospects for the petroleum technologist. Sir Charles Qreenway, president of' the Anglo-Persian Oil company, gave warning In an address at New Postlc- j on-Tyne the other day that development develop-ment of the world's oil resources should bo marked by amity between nations. "If each country devotes its en-1 ergies and brains chiefly to the supply sup-ply of its own markets, it will have quite enough to do to occupy the energies en-ergies of its ell men, and will make quite enough profit to satisfy any reasonable aspirations." he said. 00 |