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As I could not ride across the French camp, I had to take a roundabout road by way of Gumbinnen. This caused a delay of four hours." "Give me your dispatches," said the king. Major Thile handed him a large sealed paper. The king extended his hand to take it, but suddenly withdrew it again and started back.
"I was pressed into service as a chauffeur. This car was needed near the front, and there was no one to drive it. I deceived them wholly, with my uniform, and my motorcycle. And so they forced this car upon me! My plan was to use it, instead of my cycle, to get past their lines." "But you are riding straight to Gumbinnen and they are near there in force!" "No, they have retreated from there.
Parisians receive with enthusiasm the news communicated by M. Iswolski, the Russian Ambassador, announcing that three of the five army corps which Germany has in East Prussia have been defeated by the army of General Rennekampf, near Gumbinnen. I drove to-day with the Duke de Loubat, who is a close friend of Cardinal Ferrata, now spoken of as foremost favorite among the Papabili Cardinals.
For the whole country is riddled with that which they call patriotism, and we treason. But I can only repeat what his Majesty disbelieved the day before yesterday that the heart of the ill is Dantzig, and the venom of it Sebastian. Who he really is and what he is about you must find out how you can. I go forward to-day to Gumbinnen.
Murat took advantage of their uncertainty to halt a few days at Gumbinnen, and to direct the remains of the different corps to the towns on the borders of the Vistula. Previous to this dislocation of the army, he assembled the commanders of it. I know not what evil genius it was that inspired him at this council.
Yes, he got back safely enough. As to whether he is safe now, that is another matter. He is in the thick of the fighting around Gumbinnen, and he is not one of those generals who stay in the rear. He is like Skobeleff. Have you heard of him?" "He commanded at Plevna, against the Turks?" "And in a good many other battles!
The main shock was taken upon the eastern line of invasion at Gumbinnen; the Germans, defeated there, and threatened by the continued advance of the other army to the west of them, which forbade their retreat westward, fell back in considerable disorder upon Königsberg, lost masses of munitions and guns, and were shut up in that fortress.
The defeat at Gumbinnen occupied four days from the 16th to the 20th of August. Meanwhile the Russian army which was advancing from the Narew had struck a single German army corps the 20th in the neighbourhood of Frankenau. The Russian superiority in numbers was very great; the German army corps was turned and divided.
From the east there came a dull sound that rose presently to a steady, loud roar. "Everything has changed!" cried Ivan, his face white. "We are pushing the attack we must have occupied Gumbinnen! The Germans are being driven back and they are bringing up their supports! They must mean to fight here to protect the railway! This place will be the centre of a battle before morning!
The high-seas and the high-roads were alike blocked by the French. And rumour, ever busy among those that wait, ran to and fro in the town. The Emperor of Russia had been taken prisoner. Napoleon had been checked at the passage of the Niemen. There had been a great battle at Gumbinnen, and the French were in full retreat. Vilna had capitulated to Murat, and the war was at an end.
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