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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR FINISHED LUMBER IN FRANCE. 



After the foresters, woodsmen and sawmill workers have finished their share of converting the French forests into construction material the lumber 

 is loaded on powerful trucks for distribution to such building operations as may be going on. This section of the war zone lumber yard is devoted 

 to finished sleepers No time is lost between tree felling and clelivery of lumber, as all the work is done under military discipline. 



new lines. No village or farm was left standing on this 

 glacis, no road was left passable, no railway track or en- 

 bankment was left in being. Where once were woods 

 there are gaunt rows of stumps ; the wells have been 



blown up ; wires, cables and pipe lines destroyed. In 

 front of our new positions runs, like a gigantic ribbon, an 

 empire of death." This is typical of the situation that 

 has been created by the enemy and which must be over 



WAR ZONE FORESTERS BUILDING RAILROAD 



The Canadian Forest Section by no means confines itself to lumbering 

 and sawmill work. Railroads are essential to modern warfare and these 

 men are constructing a line through a French forest. The Forest Section 

 is doing the entire joh, from cutting ties to grading and tracklaying. 



CANADIAN WOODSMEN IN THE WAR ZONE 



These men are types of the forest workers sent overseas as a part of 



Canada's contribution to the cause of the Allies. The sergeant on the 



right has three sons serving in France, one of them a captain and the 

 others lieutenants. 



