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GERMAN MANCEUVRES. 
head-quarters at Karlsruhe; the 29th Division is under the command 
of: Prince Frederick Wilhelm, Hereditary Grand Duke of Baden, who 
with his very able General Staff Officer, Major von Lindenan, will 
surely come most prominently to the front in case of war. The head¬ 
quarters of this division are at Freiburg, and portion of it is stationed 
at Miilhausen, on the frontier, but a short distance from Belfort. 
With the sanction of Lord Wolseley and by special permission of His 
Majesty the Emperor of Germany, I attended the Divisional Manoeuvres 
of the 29th Division and the Corps Manoeuvres; in the first instance 
being attached to the staff of the Hereditary Grand Duke of Baden, in 
the second to that of General von Billow. 
In spite of the very bad weather the manoeuvres were so interesting 
and instructive that I venture to give “in extenso ” the general and 
special ideas and the orders issued day by day; I append a map. 
Head-quarters 29tli Division, 
Zwingenberg, 9th October, 1896. 
“General idea for the 10th September. A Western Army has crossed 
the Rhine at Maxau and Germersheim. An Eastern Army is concen¬ 
trating between the Neckar and the Tauber, their main strength being 
at Buchen and Adelsheim. 
Special Idea for the Western Force. 
The left wing of the Western Army has on the 9th September 
pushed its advanced guard to Meckesheim and an advanced flank de¬ 
tachment to Wiesenbach, while its main body has gone into bivouacs 
on the left bank of the Elsenz. The following orders are given by the 
General Commanding for the 10th :— 
Wiesloch, 9th September, 8 a.m. 
1. —The advanced troops of the enemy are reported to be on the 
Neckar from Eberbach to Gundelsheim in considerable 
strength. 
2. —The advance of the corps on the Neckar will be continued to¬ 
morrow. 
3. —The advance guard will march off to-morrow at 8 a.m. and 
proceed by Epfenbach to Reichartshausen; the cavalry 
will reconnoitre up to the valley of the Neckar between 
Gundelsheim and Zwingenberg. 
4. —The left flank detachment will march by Waldwimmersbach 
on Reichartshausen, and will so arrange its time of start¬ 
ing and rate of march that it will meet the advanced 
guard at the latter place. The cavalry will reconnoitre 
along the Neckar from Zwingenberg to Eberbach, and 
will break up the railway there, to do which the detach¬ 
ments detailed for the purpose must swim the Neckar. 
5. —The main body will follow the advanced guard at a distance 
of li kilometres. 
6. —Route of heavy baggage. 
7. —Route of Ammunition Columns. 
8. —I shall march at the head of the main body. 
