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Show MORE OIL TANKS FOR BRITISH FLEET LONDON'. May 27. Oil fuel depots for the British navy came In for much discussion In the house of commons when Commander Eyres Monsell moved an appropriation of 4,260 000 pounds for naval works buildings' He said safeguarding the employe and policing po-licing the ocean depended on the efficiency ef-ficiency and mobility of the fleet, and that one of the first essentials to mo-I mo-I blllty was oil tanks all over the world Other members of commons declared declar-ed such tanks would be vulnerable to gunfire from submarines and aircraft and that defending them would be an unnecessary expense. But the appropriation appro-priation was passed. |