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Show OO YANKS 'GET LEFT' IN TURK OIL DEAL , LONDON. Dec. 9. The approach- i lng Anglo-French-American agree- 1 ment regarding tho Mosul oil fields In Asiatic Turkey, brings to an end the negotiations which have been in abeyance abey-ance for two years and which have been of international interest. Tho Germans were tho first to interest in-terest themselves In tho possibilities of these fields, taking up tho matter early In this century. Tho Germun prospectore, however, took care to make two reports of their discoveries, j sending one to their own goi ernmont ; ln which they referred to tho splendid splen-did opportunities presented by tho oil 1 fields, and the other to the sultan'o government In which tho fame oppor- ! tunltles were said to be very meagre. The Ihen sultan, Abdul Ilamld. managed man-aged to obtain coplos of both reports. Concealing his resentment from the Gormans, hp had tho revenues from Mosul transferred from the state department de-partment of mines to his own civil list. In order better to barudn with former Emperor William. Tho negotiations dragged on for many years. Meanwhile the D'Arcy ezporatlon of the samo field was carried car-ried out. and two years before tho war the much desired concession was obtained by an international syndicate syndi-cate .the Turkish Petroleum company. The Germans obtained 25 per cent or the stock of the company and English Eng-lish interests tho other 75 per cent. 1 nder the Ban Hemo oil convention conven-tion of 1020, the Gorman interests were transferred to France. Last year, however, the American goern-dlsputed goern-dlsputed the claim of tho English Eng-lish Interests, but In the end merely asked tho right to share ln tho enter-Ths enter-Ths amount of Interest allotted to the Americans under the new agreement is now known, but it will pi oh. 1 hly only be a nominal percent-,e;e percent-,e;e ..f the British and Frenrh inter- .sU. I |