GERMAN IMPERIAL MANOEUVRES. 
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Mittenwalde, Great Macknow. The Garde Corps will march to-morrow 
to his encounter, and throw him back over the Zulow canal. 
The cavalry division will assemble east of Britz, on the Rixdorf-Rudow 
road, and at 9.15 a.m. proceed against the line Konigs-Wusterhausen, 
Mittenwalde, Great Macknow. It will endeavour to gain all the ground 
it can to the front, to obtain information of the enemy, and hold, 
temporarily, commanding points of ground. 
The 1st Garde infantry division will rendezvous south of Mariendorf, 
and at 9.15 a.m. march by Lichternade and Glasow on Great Macknow. 
The 2nd Garde infantry division will rendezvous south of Britz, and 
at 9.15 a.m. will march on Mittenwalde by Gross-Ziethen and Selchow. 
The combined brigade will rendezvous south of Lankewitz, and at 
9.15 a.m. march on Mahlow by Marienfelde. 
The corps artillery will rendezvous south of Britz, in rear of the 
2nd division, and follow the leading brigade of the latter. 
I shall be found at the head of the 1st infantry division. 
(Signed) AUGUST, 
Prince of Wurtemberg. 
The Garde Corps was composed of 304 battalions, 40 squadrons, and 
18 batteries; of these the combined brigade was formed of— 
Garde fusilier regiment. 
Infantry battalion of instruction. 
Two companies under officers school 
of instruction, Potsdam. 
One squadron Hussars of the Garde. 
Instruction battery, school of gunnery. 
The railway, to defend a portion of which the whole efforts of the 
commander of the southern army were centred, runs due south from 
Berlin over a wide, sandy, but cultivated plain, intersected by many 
roads, which were distinguishable from a considerable distance by 
the poplars which, as with most continental highways, lined both 
sides of them; few other trees were to be seen, except those clustered 
round the villages, which were sparsely dotted about and noticeable by 
their lofty spires. 
The extreme points of the outposts of either side were only about 
five miles apart, so that very shortly after the signal to commence 
hostilities was given, the scouts came into contact with one another. 
Both sides pressed on, and when the advanced guard of the right, or 
5th division 3rd Army Corps, had reached the village of Gross-Ziethen 
and occupied some rising ground to the south of it, they discovered the 
left of the Garde Corps, flanked by a large body of cavalry, advancing 
in great strength on the village. Intelligence was at once sent to the 
4battalions. 
«• 1 squadron, 
4 guns. 
