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On Hm rnorning of Urn zyth I decided to go to Hohenstein to iry and disentangte lim congestion caused by the troops getting fflhtr/f tip, Operations agmmtt Reimenkampfs army were to be jnitiated, whellier he advanced or remained Y/liere ho was.

Silił another incident occurred before we were certain of yfctory#

Karły on thc zgth, we received a message by aeroplane that a hostile Army Corps was marching on Neidenburg from the south, and was nearing tfie town, It was therefore threatening the rear of the ist A,C,, which, with its front fadng north, was eng&gitig Russian troops in retreat. At the same moment we were called itp from Neidenburg and informed that hostile flirapnel was falling on the town. Then we were cut off. Ali avai)able troops were set marching in the direction of Neidenburg, to support the ist A.C, in the engagement we anticipated. Ihit General von Franęois had saved himself already by his own energy, and the enemy displayed morę hesitation tlian the situa-lion justifted.

Aftcr gmng these orders, I set out for Hohenstein, and on the way went over the battlefield, which madę a deep impression on me. Kast of Hohenstein our own columns were getting entanglcd with masses of Russian prisoners. It was no easy taslc to restore order. The ist R.C. and the 2oth A.C. were drawn up along the road from Allenstein to Hohenstein and the Anny Command had thus again at least two corps at its disposal.

The battle was drawing to a conclusion. The yd Reserve