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Russian wireless. The moment could not have been worse. The battle
around Lodz raged at its peak, and just as Ludendorff was about to
consummate his envelopment with his inferior forces but his superior
intelligence, that intelligence was abruptly blanked out. Deprived of his
eyes and ears, he did not know °f the Russian reinforcements that began
to cut off the
deeply sunk point of Mackensen's dagger. By the 21st, the point had
been isolated, and the envelopers were themselves enveloped. A guards
division and two cavalry corps were encircled by Russian forces with no
apparent hope of escaping. The Russians exultantly ordered up trains to
carry off the prisoners.
But the next day, Pokorny's group finally subdued the new Russian
alphabets, and the intelligence once again began streaming into German
headquarters. Intercepts soon revealed a weak spot at Brzeziny in the
ring of Russians. Ludendorff's headquarters radioed this information to
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