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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



when, on the afternoon of February 5, the shores 

 of Ireland and Scotland hove in sight. But at 5.45 

 that evening came a bing! bang! With the crash 

 all lights went out, due to the electric plant being put 

 out of commission, and the ship was left in absolute 

 darkness. The men came pouring up onto deck from 

 their quarters, two or three decks below ; flares were 

 lighted and everybody set to work lowering the life 

 boats. In many cases, the members of the crew assigned 



to do but wait and see what would happen next. No 

 more destroyers seemed inclined to come to the rescue 

 of the ill-fated 700. The Tuscania listed more and more 

 to starboard ; the flares burned out, leaving the ship in 

 darkness. The chances of those left on board grew 

 slimmer and slimmer as the icy water crept up closer 

 and closer to the starboard rail. Then, slowly and 

 cmietly, out of the black night a long, black destroyer 

 slipped alongside and, by pumping overboard forty tons 



SMALL TOPS BROUGHT FROM THE FRENCH FOREST TO BE PILED UP NEAR THE MAIN RAILWAY LINE FOR USE AS FUEL. 

 THIS SCENE IS IN THE SAND DUNE COUNTRY NEAR THE COAST IN SOUTHWESTERN FRANCE 



to the boats failed to put in an appearance, and the sol- 

 diers, unaccustomed to this work, had to get the boats 

 away as best they could. Some boats were unsuccess- 

 fully launched, causing their occupants to be thrown into 

 the icy water. After all available boats and rafts had 

 been launched and two loads of men had been taken off 

 in two British destroyers, which came alongside, 700 men 

 were still left on board with nowhere to go and nothing 



of oil, was able to accommodate all those left on the 

 sinking ship." 



During the long wait, one of the companies of the 

 20th, after seeing comrades drowned in front of them, 

 and not knowing what was in store for themselves, stood 

 in line in perfect order and sang "Where do we go from 

 here, boys? Where do we go from here?" 



LAGUNA MOUNTAIN RECREATION AREA 



A N important new development of recreation in the 

 -^*- open is taking place in San Diego county on the 

 Cleveland National Forest, in California. This is the 

 Laguna Mountain recreation area, very careful plans for 

 which were worked out in advance by the United States 

 Forest Service. The plans are being carried out under 

 expert supervision, and the Forest Service has already 

 spent about $60,000 in the development of the area. It 

 is situated only fourteen and one-half miles from the 

 San Diego-Imperial Valley State highway, with which 



it is connected by an excellent automobile road. It can 

 be reached in a few hours by the people of the hot interior 

 valleys. It has both public camping-grounds and private 

 lots, which are leased to individuals for a term of years, 

 thus making it worth while for the lessees to build sub- 

 stantial cabins. Many people are already taking advan- 

 tage of the opportunity, and Laguna Mountain bids fair 

 to become one of the best outing areas in Southern Cali- 

 fornia. 



