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cost of the reconstruction work which will otherwise 

 result. It is no plea that such a thing has never been 

 done before. The end of the war will find us, the 

 war itself is finding us, doing a good deal we never 

 thought to have to do. First then we want to place 

 our finger on accessible supplies in large quantities 

 and owned by the Allies ; and, secondly, to come to 

 an agreement by which these supplies can be made 

 available at the earliest possible moment with the 

 object of bringing down the present preposterous rates. 

 If we examine the forestry resources of the Allies 

 the one great fact which immediately becomes apparent 

 is the gigantic area of the forests in Russia, the Land 

 of Forests, as it has been called. For some years past 

 I have made some study of the forests of European 

 Russia and also those of Finland and Siberia, and the 

 following three articles serve to indicate to some 

 extent the great value of these forests. It is a most 

 unfortunate thing for this country that we have known 

 so little of Russia in the past, of its enormous possi- 

 bilities and potentialities and its great value in many 

 ways to this country. Germany discovered it. Russia 

 is honeycombed with Germans and German enterprises, 

 in no wise conducted for the welfare of Russia or in 

 the interests of Russia and her people, but for the 

 furtherance of German Empire objects and of those 

 alone. Even in the matter of forestry imports Ger- 

 many was undermining our previously unquestioned 

 supremacy in the Russian timber markets. Germany 

 has vast forest resources in her own country, a consider- 

 able proportion of which is afforested, and not only 

 afforested but with the woods managed on the highest 



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