BISMARCK LOVED TREES
The great destruction of trees in tho war area would have distressed Bismarck {declares an English recorder). For though so careless of human lives, the Iron Chancellor would never willingly sacrifice one of "my friends," the trees. On his own estatos it was difficult to gain his consent to the removal of a single tree, even when thinning was necessary to tho proper growth of tho plantations. When he found a workman laying a telegraph, wire, coolly cutting: branches from a tree that was in his way, Bismarck was furious, and not only severely feprinianded the man himself, but sent for the engineer in charge and lectured him on the criminal laxity of permitting such a sacrilege.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 1, 2 January 1915, Page 11
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120BISMARCK LOVED TREES Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 1, 2 January 1915, Page 11
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