THE "LIVING UNKNOWN SOLDIER"
ESTABLISHING IDENTITY OF FRENCHMAN V (Received March. 30, 8.20 p.m.) PARIS, March 30. The judicial authorities have sworn in three experts in a last effort to solve the problem pf France’s ‘diving unknown soldier” to whom the name of Mangin was provisionally allotted when, apparently escaped from Germany, he was found wandering near Lyons in 1917. When his photograph was published in the newspapers 200 families claimed him. They are now reduced to two persons, one of whom, Madame Lemay, claims that he lived with her as her husband.
Mangin's mental condition has not changed since 1917. Doctors are endeavouring to restore his memory by taking him from a hospital in Paris to Madame Lemay's villa at Vincennes.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21746, 31 March 1936, Page 11
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