The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-10


States, which now follow
BAVARIA.
16 regiments of infantry, of 8 battalions each,
10 battalions of chasseurs,
10 regiments of cavalry,
9 brigades of artillery,
which gives 90, 064 men in field troops, %, 757
men reserve, and %, Ga garrison troops-Inaking
in all III, 435 men and 240 guns.
wURTEMBERG.
sregiments infantry, of 3 battalions each,
9 battalions of chasseurs,
regiments of cavalry,
2 regiments of artillery,
which give, in field troops p, ,076 men; reserve,
6540; garrison troops, 6064-making in all
"a, $50 men and GO guns.
BADEN.
6 regiments infantry, of battalions each.
regiments cavalry.
3 field divisions of artillery,
giving 1866 field troops, 1895 reserve, and
9640 garrison troops making in all 30, 291 men
and "a guns.
Thus the auxiliary troops which the three
South German States would bring to the aid of
the North German Confederation amount to the
respectable figure of 1863, S02 men and $40 guns.
These numbers exactly correspond to those
given in an article on the conflicting powers,
published in the May number of the ReUue Null
tdire FrdncdiSe. The computation in question
must therefore have been made in April, in
manifest anticipation of war. Another proof
this, that on the other side of the Rhine they
1t was great mistake of the Austrians in 1859
to underrate the strength of their opponent an
error smartly alluded to in the opening sentence
of pamphlet published in 1S60:-"The late war
of Austria in Italy betrayed the insuffciency of
the Austrian army in every particular, except
in the numbers as they appeared on paper"
We have no wish to fall into any such error.
We have, therefore, vigorously examined the
statistical returns on which the above figures are
based and can guarantee them to be generally
accurate. In the year 1866, 413,5 500 Prussians
crossed the frontier, while 1913, 900 men remained
| at home. What Prussa-at that time compare
| lively small-was then able to do in the way of
| sending men into the field, the North German
| Confederation will, of surety, be able to do
| now. For our own part, we have 10 doubt that
! France cannot command 400 600 fighting men.
Even the ReUue 1Militdire Franchise, in the
| above article, limits the French field army to
| 600 men. Here we have a weighty argument
in favor of the ultimate victory of Germany.
| The Neue Freie Presse, taking for granted
| that the chief object of the French is to make a
division between North and South Germany,
maintains that il is the intention of the enemy
| to push into the district of the Lower Maine.
| 1t asserts that the district belonging to Hesse-
| Darmstadt, on both sides of the Rhine, has been
| chosen as the scene of the principal offensive
| operations of France, and Frankfort is said to
have been chosen by preference-Mayence being
| Outflanked-as the chief seat of occupation.
"The French know" says the writer, that
Frankfort, the keystone of the Prussan military
railway-transport system, will be the first place
| to be defended by Prussia. Frankfort is from
nineteen to twenty miles {? German miles) dis
tant from the French frontier whence the
threat, constantly repeated by French officers
of taking possession of the seat of the Quondam
German Federal Government with 10000 mer
is, unfortunately, not to be classed among the
| impossibiities."
| The Pretensions of Prussia.
The Paris correspondent of the New York
Times, writing on July 81, says
An extract of correspondence apparently
semi-official in its origin, from Berlin, to the
| Gazette dAugsbOurg, will give some ideas of the
| pretensions of Bismarck and William ~, in case
of the victory of their arms.
"France not having as yet made known the limits
Of its pretensions, it does not become us to make
known, just yet, what will be the eXactons OF Ger
many what is certain is that the question OF nation
alities will not be resolved until the French have
been driven beyond the Vosges. The hour is not less
solemn than when, in 4S6 and 1876, after the battles
| OF Soissons and Toibac, Clovis destroyed on one
side the Roman domini0ns in Gau, and on the othel
| brought into subsection the Alamans of the Rhensf
| Paatnate. Since this epoch, few combats have
been of so great moment either in France or in Ger
| many. 1t Is true that Lelpsic decided the fate O
| the Emperor Of the French who considered himself
the successor OF Charlemagne, but the question, in
| asmuch as 1t concerns the two people, remained un
resolved, for France, vanquished retained her from
tiers more extended than in 1885, and this, without
protestation on the part OF Austria The hour fol
| resolving this question has struck"