WILL FORESTS BE PLANTED ON OLD BATTLE FIELDS? 



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sation by the Government, they will, doubtless, see the houses, carrying oft" furniture, tools, farm implements, 

 wisdom of the proposal. Sentimentally, also, there is a livestock and poultry, and destroying what they had to 

 reason for turning into forests these ever memorable leave behind. 





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International Film Service 



RUINED FORESTS IN NO MANS LAND 



A scene of desolation, shelbtorn ami ghastly, the remants of a once beautiful forest. There are thousands of acres of such devastated terri 

 tory utterly unfit for agricultural development which may be replanted to forest after the war. 



regions of death, where rest the shattered bones of so 

 many thousands of brave men. 



An effort was to have been made this spring to begin 

 to cultivate the land again in the region wasted last March 

 by the retreating Germans. The latter, it will be remem- 



One month after 'the German retreat the first horses 

 for domestic use appeared in the devastated regions. 

 The refugees who returned to their homes and they 

 were at first very few brought about thirty horses in 

 all. Two months elapsed before the arrival of the first 



bered, made a clean sweep of everything, burning the cow. Rut now in the department of the Somme alone, 



Underwood and Underwood British Official Photograph 



ANOTHER STRIKING EXAMPLE OF THE RUTH LESSN ESS OF THE HU.N 



Thil is an official photograph and shows another stroke of German vandalism executed on the beautiful fields of France, 

 have cut down the fruit trees so that nothing may interfere with their dastardly manoeuvers. 



Here the Uoclus 



