GERMAN OIL SUPPLIES
INADEQUACY SUGGESTED EUROPEAN PRODUCTION SOURCES OF ALLIES ißccd. Sept. 22, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 21. Statistics showing that the entire crude oil productions of countries able to supply Germany will be inadequate for the Nazis’ mechanised army and air force for a long war, were presented at a gathering of scientists to celebrate the eightieth anniversary of the drilling of the first American well.
Dr. Gustav Eglotl said that Russia, Poland, Germany and Rumania together produced only 260,000,000 bairels annually, representing about a quarter of the United States production. This was bound to nullify Nazi air superiority.
He added that the United States alone was able to produce the high octane petrol for all the world’s highspeed planes. In addition, England and France could draw from South America, Persia and Iraq.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20049, 22 September 1939, Page 3
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