For a space on either side the ground had been cleared, and at regular intervals young poplars planted.

Each sapling was protected by a shield of wickerwork and bossed by an iron rod.

In the course of a couple of years it is the hope of the local council to have "finished" that valley throughout its entire length, and made it fit for a tidy-minded lover of German nature to walk in.

There will be a seat every fifty yards, a police notice every hundred, and a restaurant every half-mile.
They are doing the same from the Memel to the Rhine.

They are just tidying up the country.