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Show LEADS SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS AT MARNE General Mangin. General Mangin, "the hero of the Marne," was removed by the "defeatist'' "de-featist'' faction of the French in 1917, but he has leapt to the front again as the leader of the French in their successful attacks against the Germans Ger-mans between the Aisne and Marne in the allies' great counter offensive. Under his leadership the French succeeded suc-ceeded in wresting from Hun hands the territory north of Verdun, bristling bristl-ing with fortifications. Last March when the fifth British army was in retreat he appeared with his army and halted the Hun drive -to Palis. |