GENERAL MANGIN'S TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO LAON.
GREETED AS LIBERATOR BY OVERJOYED POPULACE.
MAYOR AND 300 CITIZENS TAKEN AS HOSTAGES. Australian and N.Z. (Received 7.40 p.m.) PARIS. Oct. 14. General Mangin had a triumphal entry into Laon on Sunday afternoon, the inhabitants welcoming him en masse, weeping for joy and shouting "Vive le Liberateur." They carried him shoulder high to the Town Hall, where the deputy-Mayor received him, the Germans having taken the Mayor and 300 citizens as hostages. Laon is less damaged than either Cambrai or St. Quentin.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16982, 16 October 1918, Page 7
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