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larger material which they are in a position to 

 supply. 



An endeavour has been made to point out in this 

 article ^ that in the forests of Finland there exists one 

 direction at least to which the devastated countries 

 may look to obtain materials at a reasonable price with 

 which to repair the destruction wrought by the Great 

 War. Those industries in the Allied countries which 

 depend upon timber for their raw material may also 

 hope to obtain a part of their requirements from these 

 forests. But both these possibilities remain possi- 

 bilities only. It will depend on the Government being 

 sufficiently far-seeing to come to some definite working 

 arrangement between themselves and Russia before 

 the war closes, if advantage is to be taken of existing 

 opportunities. And the Finland forests, with their 

 easy export faciUties offered by their numerous water- 

 ways and available timber of the kinds which will 

 be most in demand, Scots pine and spruce, present one 

 of these opportunities. Are we in Great Britain going 

 to see that it is taken in time ? 



1 This article was published in the Qtmrterly R$view for April 191 6. 



