News Advocate | 1923-07-12 | Page 3 | Odd Turn of Fate

odd turn of fat fate by a n strange trick of fate the french are now cutting down a forest in the rhineland which was planted more mors than a century aco ago b their ancestors when diering the revolution the rhine province provinces mere M ere occupied by french armies they cut down the timber in the privately owned forests of ila has ruck eifel aad sad haardt which later became a part of the retch a holdings the french on taking possession of the left bank of the rhine found it ne ceary to replant these devastated area and imported large quantities of pines and similar trees from fram savoie and the pyrenees Pyre nees before the world war the germans considered cutting down these trees planted by the french but the forestry fore atry experts advised wait inc in until I 1 1020 wha they would be fully in turu 1 according to the beat best this delay delat cost the empire at least V 0 francs