Friends intelligencer . NEWTON COAL ^nswers the Burning Question^ ^frauds JMdlipnm. ON EARTH PEACE, GOOD-WILL TOWARD MEN. VOLUME 76 PHILADELPHIA, TENTH MONTH 1, 1919 NUMBER 40. DAVID NEWLIN FELL,(See memorial on inside page.) A SWARTHMOEE CO. IN FEANCE. [The writer of this letter to Professor Jesse H. Holmes is astudent at Swarthmore College, who left America in the fall of1918 to join Friends Reconstruction Unit for work in France.] Aubreville (Mense) France, July 10, 1919. Dear Dr. Holmes:— ^ince I last wrote my world has changed from thatof quaint, unthinking pre-war France to the shattered
Friends intelligencer . NEWTON COAL ^nswers the Burning Question^ ^frauds JMdlipnm. ON EARTH PEACE, GOOD-WILL TOWARD MEN. VOLUME 76 PHILADELPHIA, TENTH MONTH 1, 1919 NUMBER 40. DAVID NEWLIN FELL,(See memorial on inside page.) A SWARTHMOEE CO. IN FEANCE. [The writer of this letter to Professor Jesse H. Holmes is astudent at Swarthmore College, who left America in the fall of1918 to join Friends Reconstruction Unit for work in France.] Aubreville (Mense) France, July 10, 1919. Dear Dr. Holmes:— ^ince I last wrote my world has changed from thatof quaint, unthinking pre-war France to the shatteredFrance of the battle-field. Aubreville is located abouttwenty-seven kilometers from Verdun. During thewar it was constantly under bombardment, and oncefell within the sweep of the German advance for aperiod of ten days. The statistics of the Mission re-port tell its story with dramatic simplicity:— aubrevuxe (Meuse) Population in 1914 656 Population in November, 1918 Total number of bouses before the war 249 Completely ruined 219 Badly damaged 30 Repairable Unharmed When our building equipe arrived there were, infact, neither population nor habitable buildings at Au
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