GERMAN ARMY MANOEUVRES.
USE OF MOTOR AND AEROPLANES;' Berlin, September 11. One hundred and ten thousand troops are partaking in the manoeuvres beginning to-day. The Kaiser has arrived. Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia commands one army, and FieldMarshal von Der Goltz the other. Tho scene of the manoeuvres is in the forest country at Mecklenburg, on the Pomeranian border. It includes a chain of lakes, where General Murat, Napoleon’s dashing cavalry loader, isolated and overwhelmed the retreating Prussians in 1806. Supplies are being delivered in 5ton motor waggons, travelling at twenty miles an hour. Four aeroplanes are with each army. Each has a pilot and observer.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 23, 12 September 1911, Page 5
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