The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, October 1, 1914. NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Oil being now important as a fuel, both for warships and merchant dirps, it becomes of interest to examine the oil resources of the lvTii' r ‘ r ent nations. Mr J. T. in Oil News, states the annual production of crude oil in four European oil-producing countries as follows :—Russia, 9,325,894 tons ; Roumauia, 1,885,384 tons; Austria (Galicia), 1,087,286 tons ; Germany (estimate), 130,000 tons. Russia has sufficient supplies of oil fuel and other petroleum products for war purposes. Roumania, should she take an active part, would have an abundance of these resources. Austria has quite sufficient for her own needs, and probably sufficient tor those of Germany, for an indefinite period should she work the producing fields to the fullest possible extent and utilise the present large stocks of crude oil. The oil resources of the British Empire are not now to be too freely discussed. Suffice it to say that those resources will prove adequate to our naval and commercial interests for a long time to come.
History is the repetition of history; but rarely, indeed, has the repetition been so close as at this moment. Compare what happened when Fredeiic the Great provoked the war of the Austrian Succession with what is happening now or may happen soon; “ The whole world sprang to arms. On the head of Frederic is all the blood which was shed iu a war which raged during many years, and in every quarter of the globe, the blood of the column of Fonlenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden. The evils produced by his wickedness were felt iu lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America.” So wrote Macaulay in his famous Essay of Frederic the Great.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1305, 1 October 1914, Page 2
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333The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, October 1, 1914. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1305, 1 October 1914, Page 2
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