Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-20
Gen. Mangin Has Fought 27 YeGrs For France; Was Soul Of Verdnn;;'
 Led Yanks On Mavne, LaOn Fronts

Soldiers, our savage enemies have dared to offer us the insult of a pre- mature peace. Even while gathering fresh armies they are shouting Kane rad You know their trick. But France has answered with the roar of your cannon and the points of your bayonets. You have been the faithful ambassadors of the republic She thanks you"
 It was at the time of the Rumanian debacle in the Dobrudja that General Mangin, already the hero of Verdun, wrote that beautiful page.
 Before the war" never existed for Jc cph Mangin War is his element ;s lae sea is the sailors element. He i a man of war-a war made man.
 He is from Lorraine, as Micheler d'Urbal, Maud-huy and Marshal Ney. Two of his uncles were generals of the Second Empire. Two brothers fell in battle, one at Tonkin and one in Mauretania A younger one, mis- sienary of the order of the White Fathers, is now a sergeant in Sene- galese company.
 At 23 he was graduted from the military school, St. Cyr, and he has been in war constantly the 27 years since then. Every promotion from sub lieutenant to general of the army mas come to him on the field of battle. An occasional leave for a few months has been his only vacation from war since his cadet days.
 In the days of peace hc fougLt more often than the soldiers of Napoleon and campaigned more widely than they in their battles from the Pyra- mids to Moscow, Sahara, Dahomey, Sudan, Congo, Lake Tchad, Mauretan- ia, Adrar, he fought everywhere with Archinard Dodds. Gouraud, Marchand, Lyantey in exp6G,LiOTs that make the stories of the old explorers seem tame. How many battles? Who knows? Wounds? We'll, three at Diena, Sudan, in February, 1890, one at Bosce, Su- dan, in 1892, and the last in Morocco in 1913.
 Except for a few years in Toukin, his life has been spent in the exploring of the vast black continent And the result of those preserving decades of French exploration: An empire, a new France of 20,000,000 souls, larger than all Europe and extending our own na- tion beyond the Mediterranean, torm- ing a single nation from the Sambre to the Congo.
 For the French army Africa has been the school of action and of organ izatiOn. We have seen the parts played by JOffre, a Gallieni Mangin. Col h,l what in contempt, but they are vindi- cated.
 Into the War as Brigadier
 The world war found Mangin at Laon in command of brigade He ad- vanced to Namur and fought in the campaign that ended in the victory at the Marne. He fought in Artois. around Reims and at Vinney, and in April, 1916, he was at Verdun.
 For forty-five days the earth had trembled under the terrific artillery fighting. The attack, which had been on the two Hanks, was resumed at the i center, and we had lost Canlette wood. The enemy was sitting through the Babil ravine toward Vaux. Mangin's fierce Normandy division was ordered ! to retake Caillette wood and it was retaken.
 Checker at CailIette. the Germans stormed upon Dead Mans hill. To re- | lieve his left Nivelle, the new com mander, threw Mangin's division l against DouaumOnt on his right. Dou- aumCnt was taken then retaken, but | the enemy, gripped by the throat. had | to call in reserves and Nivelle's left ! was saved.
 Mangin's Normans were the only division. in that four months of battle. l which was not content to hold, but which actually gained. They proved | that attack is the best defense. For stonewall resistance; for heroic wait ing under the thunders of hell; for the | famous watchword of France, They shall not pass" they substituted, For ward!' And where superhuman de | fense had failed to make the enemy . give it up, attack turned him from his [ prize.
 The time had come for NivelIe's army to pass from the defense to the l attack and Mangin, then corps com | manGer, was in the Froideterre sector. ! June 23 the Germans attacked fiercely | at Froideterre and gained some i ground, but the next day they were | stupefied to find themselves attacked. l
 The Fury Of Verdun
 The fury, the desperation, the car ! mage of that battle can never be | known. Germany, pressed by the Bri- | tish menace, was determined to finish l with us and have her hands free En- | ragged by months of defiance, she gath l cred for a frenzied onslaught. As [