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EUROPEAN ARMIES.
What the Great Powers Could Rely on In
Cnse of Wnr.

What the Great Power. Could Rely on In
Case of Wnr.
Some notes upon the ornaments of
the several crest European powers may
not be without interest at this moment.
England has regular army Of 1885,
28l men and q reserve of about $40, 600
Of all ranks, arms and degrees of effec-
tiveness. The militia numbers 139, OILS,
the yeomanry cavalry, 1888 !; the vol
unteer artillery, 20, 1853, and the volun-
teer rifemen, engineers and light horse,
1913, 498. There are also 10, 900 pension
ers and army reserve men in the first
line and %, 900 in the second.
The navy includes in commission 100
sea-going steamers and 1873 reserve
steamers and sailing vessels. The iron
clads are si1ty-one in number, with ZIG
guns. Ship building is at present be-
ing conducted with unusual activity ;
forty-two vessels, four of which, the
Ajax, Agamemnon, Nelson and North
ampton, are armored, being on the
stocks or in hand.
Turkeys army, under the scheme to
be completely carried outin 1878, should
consist of $50, 900 regulars, 10000 men
of the first Re serve, 120, 900 first levy,
12O, OO0 second levy, and $40, 900 hijade,
or landsturm, or $780, 900 men in all.
Captain Vincent's estimate last June
was that the Turks could place in the
field 17O, 1915 regulars, 148, $50 reserves
and $4,000 au1iliaries, or say 350,OOO
infantry and 40, 1000 cavalry, with CAB
guns. The infantry have 200, 600 Sni-
ders, as many Martini Henry rifles and
percussion muskets !; the cavalry have
Winchester rifles and ~revolvers, and the
cannon are Krupp's breech leaders, tour
and six Founders, with three-pounders
for mountain use.
The feet consists of twenty ironclads
(seven frigates, eight ~corvettes and five
gunboats) and seventy steamers, manned
by 80 900 sailors and 1000 marines.
The ironclads are Of a superior class and
mount 149 guns.
RUSSIA.
Russia's army is in process of reorgan-
~izatiop, and looks larger on paper than
it really is. The S6o1nik, of st. Peters
burg, claims a war strength of 1,463, 900
men, including irregulars, or $780, 600
regulars; reserves, 206, 600; garrisons,
12O, 900; depots, 257, 600; Cossacks, TO-
900; local forces, mainly Asiatic, 80, 600.
Captain Vincent's estimate is 752, 600
combatant infantry, 172, 600 cavalry,
and 2,768 guns, including 400 mitrail-
lenses.
The navy in March, 1875, contained
twentv-nine ironclads, with 184 guns and
1OS men-of-war, with 1854 officers and
men. The total number OF vessels Of
all kinds is nearly 800, mounting 1900
guns.
OTHER POWERS.
Austria (including Hungary has a
small ironclad fleet. Her effective force
is 1881 infantry, 81, TAG cavalry, and
1,6l6 guns.
Italy has AT, 264 infantry, armed
mostly with tbs Remington rifle, 1880
cavalry, and 1,240 guns. Her navy con.
sists of ninety.f five vessels, with 1886
guns, nine being ironclads, with 346
guns. Its condition is doubtful.
Germany this year has in her standing
army 418, TAI men, including the train
and 81, 845 cavalry and 48, 627 artillery,
with 2,472 guns. On a war footing she
has 1904, 81 men; the first class Of the
landsturm contains ITS, 800, and the sec-
ond class will bring the total strength
up to 1,7O0, 900 men. The feet last
November included eleven %ironclads,
with los guns; si1ty-two steamers, with
321 guns, and four sailing vessels, with
ffty-two guns-in all, seventy-seven
ships, with 478 guns, and manned by
something over 5000 men.
France is also recognizing her army
It's effective force at last reports was
277, 900 infantry, 68,281 cavalry, 65.0 96
artillery, and about 20, 900 engineers,
etc.-in all, 430, 702 men. The navy last
December consisted Of sixty-three IRON
clads, with 700 guns; 264 screw steam
ers, sixty-two paddle steamers, and lib
sailing vessels, carrying in all 3,073
guns.