OIL IN DENMARK
BRITISH ESTIMATE OF STOCKS. AT DATE OF INVASION. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY. April 16. The Minister for Economic Warfare (Mr Cross) in the House of Commons reply, said that according to his information. stocks of motor spirit- and Diesel oil in Denmark at the time of the German invasion were probably as follows: — Petroleum products, not more than 200.000 tons, equivalent to an average of three and a half months’ requirements on tiie estimated consumption before the invasion. Motor spirit, 80,000 tons, or slightly under four months’ consumption. Gas fuel and Diesel oil together, 61.000 tons, equivalent to two and a half months' consumption.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1940, Page 6
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112OIL IN DENMARK Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1940, Page 6
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