ENTRY OF LAON
GENERAL MANGIN RAPTUROUSLY WELCOMED. (Australian and Cable Association.) PARIS, Oct. 14. General Mangin made a triumphal entry into Laon on Sunday afternoon, the inhabitants welcoming him en masse, weepingf or 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 3CO citizens as hostages. Laon- is less damaged than iCambrai or St. Quentin.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 249, 16 October 1918, Page 5
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72ENTRY OF LAON Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 249, 16 October 1918, Page 5
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