GERMAN MANCEUVRES. 
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SPECIAL IDEA FOR SOUTH FOR 13. IX. 97. 
(1.) The enemy has suffered considerable loss to-day. 
(2.) An officer who has been sent to the front from head¬ 
quarters brings the following report :— 
0. 0. 10th Jagers. Alexanderschanze on the Freudenstadt- 
Oppenau Road. 
11. 9. 2 p.m. 
“ I shall reach Oberkirch this evening with two battalions of Jagers 
(10th and 14th), 2 batteries (1 Field, 1 Horse), where I shall report 
myself to the commander of the reinforced 56tli Brigade. 
(Sd.) H. 
Oberst. lieutenant. 
Commander General-Major Kuhlmay. 
Troops: 25tb and 111th Regiments, 4th, 10th, 14th Jagers. 
4 Squadrons 14th Dragoons. 
2 Field, 2 Horse Batteries. 
3rd Company Pioniers. 
\ Field Hospital Detachment. 
The outposts will parade at 6.30 a.m. The Force will march at 7 a.m. 
Orders. 
H. Q. Stadelhofen, 12. 9. 97. 
8 p.m. 
(1.) The enemy has suffered heavy losses to-day. His outposts 
stand on the heights north of the line Mosbach-Sensbach. 
His bivouac fires are observed about Achern and Ober- 
achern. 
(2.) I shall to-morrow, as soon as the reinforcements arrive, 
resume the advance with the object of opening up the 
road leading out of the valley between Achern and Kap- 
pelrodeck. 
(3.) The force will parade to-morrow at 6.45 a.m. north and 
south of Him under cover of the outposts. Their posi¬ 
tions will be pointed out to the troops. 
(4.) The heavy baggage will be collected at 6.30 a.m. west of 
Thiergarten, on both sides of the road to Ulm, where it 
will be parked till further orders are received. 
(5.) From 6.30 a.m. I shall be with the main body of the out¬ 
posts, where and when commanders will report themselves 
to me. 
Dictated to the Orderlies. 
(Sd.), Kuhlmay, 
General-Major and Brigade Kommandeur. 
I accompanied the Northern, General von Hugo’s force, whose cav¬ 
alry soon discovered that Mosbach was strongly held by the enemy’s 
Jagers. The artillery was then sent to the front and took up a posi¬ 
tion on the high ground on the east of the Fautenbach, on both sides 
of the road, after a preparatory cannonade, which was not replied to 
