ROUMANIAN OIL WELLS

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1917, Page 2

ROUMANIAN OIL WELLS

A writer in the Berlin daily paper (Tageblatt) who has just returned from Roumania- describes the Btftte of the oil-fields there. He begins by .roundly abusing the English for unscrupulously destroying £25,000,000 worth of oil and plant when they knew the Germans ivere coming. Not only did the English break up or remove the machinery and net fire to the enormous oil tanks all over the district but they also stuffed the deep bore holes with stones- and pieces of metal. Although a year has passed since then the oilfields are still a picture of desolation. But the Germans have hosts of workmen clearing up the mess the English made, and after immense trouble many of the bores, which are sometimes 400 foot to. 1900 feet deep, have been cleared out. New bores have also been sunk In places where the old bores would not repay the trouble of cleaning them out. Great quantities of oil are already flowing to the tanks that feed the refineries. The output is of course not what it was la normal times, confesses the correspondent, but he maintains that in a few months' times it will be.