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GERMAN IMPERIAL MANOEUVRES. 
Seven actual days were taken np by the reviews and manoeuvres 
executed in the presence of the Emperor; the programme was as 
follows:— 
10th Sept. Review of the 3rd Army Corps by the Emperor. 
11th Sept. Exercise of 3rd Army Corps against a skeleton enemy. 
13th Sept. Review of the Garde Corps by the Emperor. 
14th Sept. Exercise of the Garde Corps against a skeleton enemy. 
16th, 17th, 18th Sept. Manoeuvres (a double action) of the Garde 
Corps against the 3rd Army Corps. 
The strength of the corps was as follows :— 
Garde Corps — 
Officers .. 944. 
Under officers. 2447. {unter offiziers.) 
Bandsmen . 1392. 
Privates .. 22,615. 
Total ... 27,398, 
together with 5701 horses and 72 guns. 
N.B.—The battery of instruction (4 guns), the cadet school, the unter offiziers 
school, &c., were attached to the Garde Corps, and included in these numbers. 
3rd Army Corps — 
Officers .. 654. 
Under officers ..;. 1540. 
Bandsmen . 1079. 
Privates . 14,788. 
Total ... 18,056, 
with 4290 horses and 68 guns. 
The reviews were held on the large plains of Templehof, close to 
Berlin on the souths where all the troops stationed in the capital 
exercise, and where, in the early part of the year, all arms may be seen 
threading their way, and apparently mingled up; no ground being 
reserved at any particular time for any one arm. It is considered that 
it is much better practice for commanding officers to exercise their 
troops under difficulties, where they have always to be on the look out 
to avoid collisions with others, than to drill in an open ground with no 
obstructions. As parade displays the reviews were magnificent, and 
they were meant for nothing more; the troops of all arms marched 
past with the most perfect steadiness from first to last, and the 
