Statement By Sir Henri Deter-ding's Representative New York, Feb. 9.
Mr. A. S. Debenham, representing Sir Henri Deterding,'the head of the Royal Dutch-Shelt oil interests, arrived in New York to-day on board the str. Berengaria, He declined to discuss the question of the purchase of oil from the Soviet by the Standard Oil Ca., of York, but declared that "American over-production was the cause of the price-war and unless this was remedied no amicable adjustment was possible.
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