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GERMAN IMPERIAL MANOEUVRES# 
On the evening of this day the commander, having been compelled 
to detach 4J battalions and a battery to Spandau, issued these 
orders:— 
Garde Corps. —Head-Quarters, Lichtenrade, 
17th Sept.—5 p.m. 
The enemy, whose outposts occupy the line Dahlewitz-Gross-Kienitz 
and eastwards, has received reinforcements of infantry and artillery. 
The Garde Corps must be prepared to meet an offensive movement on 
the part of the enemy on the line Marienfelde-Britz. 
1. The 2nd division will direct itself to-morrow at 9.30 from the 
west of Wassmannsdorf by Lichtenrade on Mariendorf. 
2. The 1st division, whose outposts will remain in their positions, 
will as a preliminary measure, at 9.30 to-morrow morning, hold with 
one brigade the defile from Glasow, and with the other the position on 
the Weinberg, and the ground south of Selchow. The Garde Pionier 
Battalion will be directed to prepare for defence a position extending 
from Britz to the height marked 156, west of the Lichtenrade- 
Mariendorf road. 
3. The cavalry division will reconnoitre to-morrow, at 9.30 a.m., 
from Rotzis towards the enemy's right, and afterwards cover the retro¬ 
grade movement of the corps. 
4. The corps artillery will at the same hour be in position south of 
Klein-Ziethen. 
5. I shall be found from 9.30 a.m. on the Klein-Ziethener-Berge. 
(Signed) FRIEDRICH FRANZ. 
Although the southern force had been pushed back in the two days' 
fighting of the 16th and 17th from the line Lichtenrade-Gross Ziethen 
as far as the line Dahlewitz-Klein Kienitz-Brusendorf, still its com¬ 
mander never for an instant slacked his grasp on the line of railway, 
which according to the general idea it was his task to hold on to and 
defend. His left, therefore, being his fixed and most important flank, 
he had strongly and most skilfully entrenched it on the railway line, 
and all efforts of his enemy had failed before his stubborn resistance. 
As on the first two days, firmly pivoting on his left, he had been 
forced to throw his right and centre back before the onslaughts of 
superior numbers, so on the third day, on receiving his reinforcements 
and becoming in his turn numerically superior, he pivoted on his left, 
and swung his right and centre forward to drive the Garde Corps 
back on Berlin. 
The commander of the latter corps on finding himself weaker than 
his foe, determined to retire to a strong and prepared position on the 
