"A short turn and the greenness vanished ! All life succumbed, as if roared down by the 

 cannons, by the howling and pounding that hammered in the valley like the pulsating of a colossal 

 fever. Shell hole upon shell hole yawned down there. From time to time thick, black pillars of 

 earth heaped up and for moments hid small parts of this desert burned to ashes, where the cloven 

 stumps of trees, whittled as by penknives, stuck up like a leering challenge to recogni;e the land 

 scape this once had been, this field of death and refuse, before the great madness had swept over it 

 and sown it with ruins, leaving it like a dancing floor on wiiich two worl.ls had fought for a loose 

 woman." — From "Men in War," by Andreas Latzko. 



A Lookout Station on Green Mountain, li.C , built by Doniiiiion Forestry Brancli. From this 

 high point the fire rangers have an unobstructed view of great areas of forests ami can easily detect 

 an incipient fire. 



