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Show mmiz RECEIVED WITH JOY Inhabitants Remaining. in Recaptured Cities of Laon and Marchais Greet French Troops By Aaeeclated Preea. WITH TUE FRENCH ARMY IN THE LAON AREA. Oct. 14. In a literal transport of joy, the 6000 inhabitanta remaining remain-ing in Laon rushed to the gates of the city yeaterday afternoon to greet General Mangln. who made hla entry into the city at S:I0 o'clock. Men. women and children with the teara ' running down their cheeks and waving . running dwo nthelr cheeks and waving, ' theitricolor cried: "Long live General' Mangint Long live the army'. Long live our liberators!" The people crowded crowd-ed around the general almost carrying him In triumph to the city hall, where he waa received by the deputy mayor. The mayor himself and 600 young men had been carried off y the Oermana. Oer-mana. . General Mangin's forces had reached the La on -La Fere railway at 10: 45 a. m. and a quarter of an hour later the French tricolor was floating from the tower of the Laon cathedral. FOREST IS CLEANED. About the same hour the last Germane Ger-mane had been chaeed from the forest of 8t. Gobain which for four years had -been one of the strongest bastions of the enemy's llnea. Pursuing their advance with heightened height-ened ardor In .the joy of having de- j Uvered Laon, Genera! Man gin's troops went on several miles north of the city, liberating a number of villages and arriving before the enemy'a secondary sec-ondary position. At Ma re ha la. 2000 Inhabitanta In-habitanta of that town greeted their ' deliverers with joyfulneaa equal to that of the people of Laon. They produced a notice left by the Oermana on retiring re-tiring to the effect that the French authorltiea would have until October 14 at 4 p. m. to remove the population, after which the town would be bombarded. bom-barded. ' GERMAN RESISTANCE. The Oermaa realatance In the Ian refflon con at ted rnoatly of machine gun fire, with a haraaalng; artillery fire upon the llnea of communication. The advance- of the French troopa wnn extraordinary, conelderlnff the difficultly that had to he overcome. All the roade had been blown up by mtnea at many placea. Tha vlllanea either were mined or burned and great deptha of wire had to be broken through. On the front of General Gnu--raud'e troopa the reconquered village, nit hough, aeemlngly Intact, hava been found to he mined. The Germane are defending atolcally all the paesagea of the river A lane, all the hrldgea having been deatroyed. The French Fifth army haa continued contin-ued Ita forward movement, liberating the vlllagea of Hterme, Oure-Rame-I court and Montalgu and reaching tha enemy'a aecondary defenae Una before Hlaaonne. Further to the eaat both the French Infantry and artillery have croeeed tha Alane at Yteux-lee-Aefeld and Aafeld-. La Villa. On the right the enemy la dlaputlng stubbornly the poaltlona along tha Alene canal from the Aire to Chateau Pure it a. |