. Impressions of European forestry : letters written during a six months' visit to England and to the continent . Forests and forestry. did their share. But if he has visited Ger- many he cannot fail to recall that across the boundary only a short distance away from the devastated area of France stand the forests of Germany unscathed by the war. Whether or not Germany can pay her debts is not within the province of this letter to discuss, but tim- ber is certainly one form of realizable wealth that she does still possess. The forests of France where there was heavy fighting help one to reconst
. Impressions of European forestry : letters written during a six months' visit to England and to the continent . Forests and forestry. did their share. But if he has visited Ger- many he cannot fail to recall that across the boundary only a short distance away from the devastated area of France stand the forests of Germany unscathed by the war. Whether or not Germany can pay her debts is not within the province of this letter to discuss, but tim- ber is certainly one form of realizable wealth that she does still possess. The forests of France where there was heavy fighting help one to reconstruct the picture of what there took place. At Amance, for instance, near Nancy, where fell many of the students of the French Forest School within a few kilome- ters of their former class rooms, there are plenty of grim reminders of the battles. Few of the wire entanglements have yet been re- moved, trenches and dugouts are as they were left in 1918, and in places are even the remains of the camouflage that helped to conceal the roads. Nature is doing all she can to cover the ity, even i£ it were, to attempt to describe these battlefields. The heroic defense of this critical salient through the entire war makes it indeed holy ground. "They shall not ; Equally is the writer unwilling to attempt to write of the devastation either of the cities that were under bombardment, or of the pathetic remains of the little hamlets that dot the firing line. Brave attempts are everywhere being made at reconstruction, but it will be a long, long time before the temporary structures of today—many of them constructed of the sheet iron used in the bomb proof dugouts—are re- placed by permanent houses. After visiting this section of France one does not wonder that the French want to keep up their army. It may be an unnecessary precaution to have as many men available as are now under arms (and every town of any size seems to have its garrison), but— When one has seen these th
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