Note 746 — Chapter XIII
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This was General Schlieffen’s opinion. Schlieffen believed that the condition of the Russian army would grow worse instead of better. See Bülow to Schlieffen, June 4, 1905, ibid., XIX, 422, No. 6194; Schlieffen to Bülow, June 10, 1905, ibid., 423 f., No. 6195.