THE WORKMAN SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1929.
PAGE SEVEN Congressman Suggests Discovery of Oil In Dutch Guiana Uncle Sam Make Offer For West SELL US Indian Island YOUR OLD STOVE WE BUY COL, WOOD OR OIL STOVES AT GOOD PRICES Buy from us a new, low priced GAS ROPER STO JE And we will buy your old stove from you Gas For Cooking Is CHEAPER CLEANER QUICKER THAN we can COAL, WOOD OR OIL Now is the time to have a GAS STOVE installed. This offer is good for May only. Get the details now.
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Panama Colon Yout Relative to the alleged discoveries of oil on the Dutch side of the Cor.
entyne river and the probability of The Daily News of New York of time that all European governments a flourishing industry being estab.
March 27 published the following begin to realize that we will no long lashed in Dutch Guiana, a represenleading article, headed Fish Talke er tolerate the criminal element of tative of the Demerara Daily ChronOut of Town :friendly nations to wrap themselvesicle recently secured an interesting The strangest of the many fun in foreign flags for the purpose interview from a well known gentlestrange utterances to steam off the abusing and contemptuously man who is connected with the comI Alone kettel of fish is not the violating our laws.
mercial interest both in that Colony une that came from Secretary Mel. Fish thus suggests that, because and in British Guiana.
ion. Mellon tried to justify our cost Great Britain ships sometimes do The representative was informed ard sinking of the Canadian things which would be dilegal inside that whilst operating on an artesian Lush vessel under the quaint in United States territory, we should well at Paradise. Dutch Guiana. onal law doctrine of hot pur more or less compel Great Britain on behalf of the Government, a few nuit.
to part with her colonies in the wreks ago, Houdelet, an engineer or is the most remarkable reCaribbean.
of repute, alleged that strong odours mark to be found among the re No Crime in Our Empire indicative of the presence of oil rained but red eyed comments ap Let look at the ethics of these were being emitted, and that the uring daily in the British and Ca. matters. It is no crime in the British water which flowed subsequently adian preso expire to sell liquor. It is a crimelcontained oily substances which Fate kept the distinction of furto do so in the United States. proved to be inflammable. The renishing the prize bull for Hamilton Suppose an American sails out to port was slightly treated at first, Fish, representative in congrese tije no man land of the high seas but a few days afterwards Houfrom the twenty sixth district of our and there buys liquor from an Eng. delet actually presented to the Gov.
own New York state and member of lishman. The Englishman commitsernment Officials of the Colony the house foreign affairs committee. no crime that see Fish several pints of what proved to be Fish loudly and publicly said, seems to think our laws, or our liq. la very rich quality of oil, and asAmong other things, this: vor ethics, extend over the earth. Lerted that the oil had come from If Great Britain takes this sink Suppose we should take Britain the locality in question.
ing of a smuggler schooner serious smuggling colonies over to protect Charged With Fraud ly and attempts to raise an issue, it ourselves from the invasion of liq.
This apparently strong evidence would be an opportune time for our uor. Why stop there? There are also failed to impress the authorities government to make an offer to buy other countries in the Caribbean favourably, with the result that all the British possessions in the which countenance a bit of liquor Houdelet was accused of fraud in Caribbean sea, including he West smuggling into the United States, the belief that he had salted the Indies, Belize Honduras, and British Why not grab Venezuela, or Duteh well in question thrown oil into Guiana in South America, as a parGuiana, or Cuba. himself and caused it to flow out tial liquidation of the war debt.
But that would be only a begin again in the hope of defrauding British ports off our coast are in ning. We all know that most of the capitalists and the interested perfested with smugglers. It is (Continued on Page 3)
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The charge having come up for hearing in the Supreme Court, Houdelet, it is stated, stuck to his claim that the discovery was al genuine one and also volunteered to take trial judge as well as another prominent Government official to RELIABLE BARBER the scene and produce more oil in their presence. On the appointed day, the clever engineer, it is stated, House 66 23rd Street bored and produced a considerable Chorrillo Panama City quantity of oil in a manner which satisfied the officials as being indisputable. The substance WAS also analysed by the Government Analysts and declared to be of the highest possible quality, with indications of asphalt also. When requested to dig deeper (merely for the sake of curiosity. Houdelet asserted that if he did so he would very likely obtain a flow of thousands of gallons which would run to waste and pos. AND sibly result in a serious conflagration under the circumstances.
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