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Federal Government to formulate the law under which the federal 



forest service was established in 1876. Although no other State 



has a forest law of so wide powers, no serious opposition has ever 



been experienced. Yet the execution of the law is by no means 



generally carried through, some cantons hanging back, due to 



political trickery and ignorance. 



An das schweizerische Forstpersonal. Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forst 

 wesen, September-October, 1914, pp. 241-245. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



All students of the forest school at Nancy 



French and most of the instructors assumed their 



Foresters military duties in the army at the outbreak 



of the war, since there is a direct relation 



between the Forest Service and the school. 



The buildings of the school have been turned into a military 

 hospital. None of the buildings had been injured by the end of 

 December by the bombardments and throwing of bombs on the 

 part of the Germans. 



A correspondent suggests that the knowledge of the foresters 

 as guides is so important that they should be used specifically in 

 that capacity rather than ranged together in special companies. 

 A list of foresters killed, wounded and missing is given, apparently 

 no prominent names among them. 



The question of the rights of forest owners to indemnity for 

 damage to their properties by military operations is discussed at 

 length by G^nean. Distinctions are made as to the ownership 

 (State or otherwise) and as to the manner, in which the damage 

 came about. Thus the cutting of trees around Paris in the interest 

 of defense — a preventive meastire — ^is liable to indemnity, so is the 

 cutting by the military authorities for immediate use, but in case 

 of declaring a place in the condition of siege (etat de guerre) or in 

 other actual conditions of war {faits de guerre) no indemnity can 

 be asked for. As regards public domain agreements between 

 the Ministers of War and of Agriculture settle the character of 

 indemnity. 



Revue des Eaux et ForSts, January 1, 1915. 



