Promising New Oilfield

In Northern Borneo

ANEW oilfield, possibly the Empire’s largest, will soon be in production on Muara Island, between Brunei and Labuan, Northern Borneo, according to the London “Observer.” Muara has the advantage that tankers can anchor right inshore. This activity, it is stated, will affect all the west coast and its limited labour supplies.

Albert Debels, a New Caledonian out law, and his accomplice, a native woman named Marie Therese, have been arrested in the region of Bourail, west coast, where they had committed a number of thefts. He was armed with an auto matic carbine. As long ago as March, the police were after Debels, when they wounded him in the Dumbea region near Noumea, but he suceeded in escaping, and took to the bush.