The Washington times., 1921-11-01
j. s. OIL FIELDS
ARE SEIZED BY
BRITISH TRUST
England Swiftly Reaching Out
for World Monopoly,
Woodhouse Says.

This is the second Of series OF
articles by Henry Woodhotse ana
| Lyxtng the tDorLd's oil situation and
shOWing hoU Great Britain is oh
tanning control of the rich petroleum
fields all over the globe and barring
! the United States from its rights 10
equal opportunity outside its o'or
boundaries. IL Uill be also shotoa
TO t0hdt a serious ertent England -
invading our OUn domestic fields
while shutting as oaLt elsewhere.
by HENRY WOODHOUsE,
Anthor of "The Struggle for the
Worlds Oil Resources" the Tert-
book of Military Aeronautics, the
Textbook Of Naval A Aeronautics
and Other Notable Volumes.
If the oil resources within the
boundaries of the United States
should give out in ten years. as a
Government survey shows, the
United States would be practically
at the mercy of the British-govern-
ment-controlled-o ed-oil-monopoly for The
bulk of the four hundred million
barrels of oil required yearly to
keep our industrial and farm ma
chinery running, the oil-burning
ships of the navy and merchant n a
rine and the nine million automobiles
going and the electric lights of mil
lions of homes burning.
England Has Different Monopoly.
This British oil monopoly is quite
different from the combinations Of
capital In which individuals and pri.
vate interests are united in America In
various corporations, which are sub
ject to legal restrictions and direc-
tons. In England oil production and
control In a government monopoly.
The British government Itself, dis
| guised as private owner OF oil corpora
tions Of which 1t owns the control Of
stock, dominates and directs the Brit
ish oil industry with it's worldwide
ramifications, and its huge control Of
the worlds best oil fields, including
the best oil fields Of California,
Kansas, Wyoming, Oklahoma and mid
continent States and Of Canada. in
cluding British Columbia, Mackenzie
District, and Newfoundland, and of
Mexico, Venezuela, and other richest
oil regions on the Pacific seaboard and
elsewhere.
Why England Needs OIL.
IT is a complete monopoly. and the
notes transmitted to Great Britain by
the United States State Department
point out that II clashes with Amer
| ican interests and American rights.
During the four years and four
months OF world war Great Britain
had turned most of her fleet and a
substantial part of her merchant ma
rine into oil burners and had built up
an enormous motor transport service,
which, with the extensive air service
and the oil-burr1ing navy and mer-
| chant marine, the other factors con-
suming petroleum products. had in
creased Great Britain's consumption
| Of gasoline, kerosene, fuel oil lubri-
| cants and other petroleum products to
| the enormous figure OF $3.50, 900 tons
during the last year of the war, which
consumption only decreased to $685.
| 900 tons in 1920.
To secure the immense amount OF
oil required Great Britain built up
| during the war most efficient gov
| ernment organization known as ii.
| NJ. Petroleum Department, with head
quarters in London. which controls all
petroleum affairs for the British gov
| ernment ana has supervision OF tne
British petroleum industry.
1t controls and operates large oil
properties in the States of California,
Washington, and in other States, and
! IL owns the Roxana Petroleum Co, OF
West Virginia, operating extensively
! in the districts of Cushing; Ealdton
and Bartelsville, and in various other
States. Among it's extensive prop
critics are the ten-inch pipe line,
42S miles long, from Gushing to st.
| Louis. and the 172 miles Of pipe line
operated by the subsidiary company,
the Valley Pipe Line Company.
The Royal Dutch Shell combination
also owns and operates enormous oil
properties in British Columbia, Mexico,
Venezuela, Colombia and other North,
Central and South American States.
In fact, the Pacific seaboard is dotted
with Royal Dutch-Shell properties.
And this tremendous company, in
addition to so many others, is di-
rectly operated by the British Co..
ernmertt.