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Show UPE j PARIS. Oct. 23 "German unitv is fictitious,'' said General Mangin. late commander in chief of the French J urm ol occupation in the Rhine provinces pro-vinces in an Interview published lh the Excelsior. "Force alone was the bond of German unity. Tbat unity ceases when force disappears. A unified uni-fied Germany will always be a peril for Europe "A federalist Germany is the only form compatible with the pacification of Europe j "The inhabitants of the Rhinelajid do not want to be Prussians. It Is in our interest not to force them to bo- .(II come BO We ought tu encourage the (sympathy of the Rhinelanders for France, not dream of dangerous au- inexation and to contribute to the creation crea-tion of a buffer state between France ', and Prussia " General Denounces Chauvanlsm. The Interviewer remarked tbat Gen- 'eral Mangin had been reproached lor organizing a season of Wagnerian op- To this the general replied. ' Chauvanism in art seems to me .tw Imost deplorable of manias." ! General Mangin, who has been selected se-lected as the head of the interallied commission 10 ihe Baltic to supervise the evacuation of tho German troou when asked what he was going to do in Russia, replied: "1 do not know yet but I knm irerj 'w.ll what there is to do. One oulj 'ha- to read the confidences of General yon der Goltz to understand thai France can no lonser, without dang I for the future, disregard what is hap-I hap-I pening in Russia. ' |