SYRIAN CEDAR FOREST

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1010, 28 June 1930, Page 13

SYRIAN CEDAR FOREST

FIND BY THE FRENCH The Bible made cedars of Lebanon I a household word, but when the | French took over the mandate f> r ! Syria after the United States had r - j fused it at the peace conference, fe v trees were left. Of the 12 fores: ! found by the American missions: I Jessup after 1860, only a few trc ! remain in the high hills some mile j east of the seaport of Beirut, whei* i Hiram of Tyre found them for King Solomon. A little to the north lu still near the sea at the port Tripoli, there is one 1 - tie wood 0.6• I feet above sea level. To save th j the French have built walls su ! mounted with barbel wire aroun i them. In this year’s report magnifier forests of genuine Lebanon cedars a reported discovered i;: a hitherto ail but unexplored region farther The situation of the forest is in ti. ; Amauus mountains that prolong ti Lebanon chain to the present front - jof Turkey. The cedars are eastern slope looking toward the | Euphrates and the 1 id of J,■>: , i the Ninivoh plain are the M ml p roleum fields that the French awa j i i part.