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headquarters from a conference at a corps headquarters, they stopped at
a railway station in Montovo for news. A signalman handed Hoffmann
still another Russian intercept—also in clear. Samsonov had sent it to
the cipherless XIII Corps at 6 a.m. It was a long dispatch, and
Hindenburg and Ludendorff had already driven off when Hoffmann got it
all. He sped after them in his own car, overtook them, and, as the two
automobiles jounced side by side along the rutted Polish road, handed it
over. Hindenburg stopped his car, and the officers studied it:
... On 25 August the 2nd Army proceeds to the Allenstein-
Osterode line; the main strength of the army corps occupies: XIII
Corps the Gimmendorf-Kurken line; XV Corps Nadrau-Paulsgut;
XXIII Corps Michalken-Gr. Gardienne .... The I Corps to remain in
District 5, to protect army's left flank ....
It was, in fact, nothing less than a full roundup of the situation as
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