Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1919 — MANGIN TO CURB REDS [ARTICLE]

MANGIN TO CURB REDS

Foch Aid to Restore Order in Hungary. • French General Recalled From Command to Undertake Special Mission in East. Paris, March 28.—General Mangin, one of the leading officers of the French army, will be recalled from his command at Mayence, the newspapers announce, to undertake a mission, the character and scope of which “is Indicated plainly by the events in Hungary.” According to the Gaulos, he would receive a very Important command tn eastern Europe, undoubtedly the Balkans, with a view to possible operations on the Hungarian frontier and southwestern Russia. Gen. J. M. G. Malleterre, the military critic, in an article fn the Matin apparently reflecting military opinion, suggests that as a means of checking the bolshevlkl and rendering definite the victory of the allies, allied armies should march through Germany and effect a junction with Poland. General Malleterre adds that the allies must finish the job by a thunderstroke, and declares that the sword of Marshal Foch is not yet Sheathed. General Mangin is one of the best offensive leaders produced in the French army during the war. It was the troops of Mangin’s Third army who stopped the enemy on the Solssons sector in the critical days after the beginning of the German offensive July 15, and it was the French, American and British troops under his command who began the allied counteroffensive which ended in the armistice November 11.

A great military campaign against Poland Is to be opened by the Russian soviet government this spring, it was declared by M. Joffe, the former bolslfevik ambassador at Berlin, at a recent meeting in Vilna, according to word received by the Polish national d>mmittee in Paris. The central executive committee of the soviet government, the Polish committee also has been informed, has voted unanimously an appropriation of $13,500,000 monthly for bolshevik propaganda in Poland.