TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF LAON.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14893, 16 October 1918, Page 5

TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF LAON.

GENERAL MANGIN RAPTUROUSLY

WELCOMED

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received Oct. 15, 7.40 p.m.) Paris, Oct. 14 General Mangin made 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 tho Deputy-Mayor received. him, the Germans having taken the Mayor and 300 citizens as hostages. Laon is less damaged than Cambrai or St. Quentin.