Mangin

Escaping it on the battlefields of Europe, Asia and Africa, General Charles Marie Emmanuel Mangin, 58, met Death in Paris. He died from appendicitis. Mme. Mangin and eight children survive him.

His funeral was one of great simplicity. His coffin was laid on a gun carriage, covered with the Tricolor and drawn first to the Chapelle des Invalides, then to the Cemetery of Montparnasse.

Ex-Premier Georges Clemenceau telegraphed Mme. Mangin: "He was a great soldier." Major General Robert Lee Bullard, onetime (Oct. 11, 1918-Apr. 15, 1919) Commander of the U. S. , Second Corps Area, cabled from his sick bed in Fort Totten Army Hospital: "Goodby, beloved comrade. Goodby, thou undaunted spirit." The General's Negro body servant walked alone and silently near his master's coffin. Many distinguished persons, including Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and Colonel H. H. Harjes of Morgan, Harjes et Cie., were, present.

Before the War, Mangin saw service in Senegal, the French Sudan, the Congo (Fashoda) under Colonel Marchand, in Tonkin, West Africa and Morocco, gradually rising to the rank of Brigadier General.

During the War, he was noted for a brilliant attack at Verdun which resulted in the recapture of Fort Douaumont and which earned for him the sobriquet of "the hero of Verdun." The following year he led his army into a brilliant but Pyrrhic victory on the Aisne.

Probably his greatest victory was that of July 18, 1918, in which he commanded a force more than half of which was composed of U.S. troops. German guns pounded the lines in front of Villers-Cottere Forest. A strong first line was pushing a German advantage for all it was worth. Of a sudden, a boom, boom, boom crashed in martial notes through the air, followed by the appalling noise of drum fire: boom, boom, drum, drum, drum, boom, boom, etc. Long lines of tanks ambled across the broken lines spittin fire to the accompaniment of the chugging engines. Behind, great waves of infantry bore down upon the enemy who were driven back of Soissons, their communication severed and the battle ended, the first of a final series which terminated the War in a victory for the Allies on November 11.