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STANDARD OIL TRUST.
meeting scottish competi-
tion. .
LONDON. 3rd September.
The Standard Oil Trust of America,
which is affected seriously by tlie competi
tion of the Scottish mineral oil companies, is
engaged in perfecting plane for combating
the competition by adopting the Scottish
companies' system of local distribution in
Glasgow, Edinburgh and .elsexvhere.
. The Standard Oil Trust has been en
gaged for a year in a fight with the Briti-h
Burma Oil Company, which drew -in the
Shell Transport Company.- The British
hax-s carried tho war into the United
States,' and arc coinpeting there with the
Standard Oil Trust. The .fight xvith tho
Scotch shale and oil .group; is another phase
of this fight.
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