Bagdad, Oct. 17.
The Turkish Petroleum Ca. has struck oil at one of its drilling i stellations near Kirkuk. The oil shot into the air at the rate of 5,000) every twenty-four hours.
The oil will be burned pending the closing of the well until commercial production is required—Reuter.
London, Oct. 18.
Sir Adam Ritchie, General Manager of the Turkish Petroleum Ca., Interviewed by Reuter, said that the new oil well at Kirkuk had had to be closed owing to the absence of transport. Nothing could be done until a pipeline was laid to a convenient seaboard, probably the Meditorranean—Reuter.
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