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Evening Star, Issue 20028, 20 November 1928, Page 1

BALFOUR FOREST IN PALESTINE. Never lias a statesman iiad a more (beautiful monument creeled lo him Ilian the Earl of Balfour. It fakes (he form of 50,01X1 newly-planled trees, and is fo be called Baifoiir Forest. The trees are being planted at Ginegar, on a hillside to the south-west of Nazariobh, and they commemorate Lord Balfour’s work in helping the Jews to return to Palestine, the ancient home of the race. Now not only Zionists will have cause for blessing the distinguished British statesman. Birds and coneys yet unborn will rejoice in the shade of the great forest that will one. day rise on the hill near Nazareth. Many men who fell in the war have had trees planted to their memory, but this if. tbs only known case in which a forest bar, been planted in honour of a living man. •

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