GENERAL MANGIN
MONUMENT TORN DOWN
(Received July 3; 12.15 p.m.)
LONDON, July 2.
The German news agency states that Germans tore down the monument to General Mangin in Paris. General Mangin commanded the Army of Occupation in the Ruhr.
General Charles, Emmanuel Mangin was born in Sarreobourg in 1866,. and after graduating, at the Military School of St.. Cyr he spent 26 years in different parts of Africa, three years in Tongking, and only ten months in France before the World. War. He commanded the: sth Infantry Division which threw the Germans back, on Douaumont in May. 1916, and three months later hurled, two divisions against the place and captured it as well as Vaux. In 1917 he commanded the sth Army, and in the last year of the war was in command of the forces which checked the German offensive in Compiegne. For a. year he commanded the Army of Occupation in the Rhineland, but his life work was to develop his country's African resources. He died in 1925 and was buried in I/lon tparnasse Cemetery under a headstone saying: "Here lies ai 'French soldier." j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 3, 3 July 1940, Page 7
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