Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-04-05
Total standing army

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Miscellaneous SSS s ss'7ss
Total standing army 1882 77l556
These forces can all be mobllIz, III three
months. The organization ana staff Ill
initiated from those Of Prussia B.hnm
the standing army are the landwehr and
and landsturm, different degrees Of millti;
and reserve. Austria has twenty-five for
treSSes of the first rank. The population
of the country is 80 9O4 435.
Russia.-The Russian army, about which
much has already been written, comprises
1858, 427 men on the peace footing and 213.-
259 On war footing. Of these sos, $40 are
regulars, 127 1923 the first resefve-which
has already been called into the field to
fight the Turks-and 276,666 of the second
reserve.
There is besides, the army of Finland and
the Cornish contingent, the latter number
ing 129 200 men. In the Orenburg district
and in Liberia, the Bashkir Cossacks are
required to furnish contingent of 10000
men, so that the entire Russian army
numbers, on paper, about 100000 men,
with an annual recruitment of about 2OO,-
600 men.
Greece-The army of Greece, by the law
passed by the Boule in 1877, amounts to
"a ,O76 men. 1t is said to be we'll drilled
and efficient, but the modern Greeks are
not very noted for their pluck.
ItGly.-The army of Italy comprises
1884, men on the peace footing and
49, U9 on a war footing. 1t is capitally
drilled. has experience, and is formidable
force, though not capable of dealing with
Austria. The forces on a war footing are
divided as follows: Infantry, 245,68O; Ber-
saglieri, 26, 1876; cavalry, 10000; artillery,
16,OS6; sappars, 6.793, &c. The population
of Italy is q 100000.
Great Britain.-The army estimates for
Great Britain for 1877. 70 were ETA ,5S3. 700.
This was intended to maintain regular
army of 133, 72O rank and file at home and
62,652 of all ranks in India. Besides these
there are the reserves, including militia.
yeomanry, cavalry, volunteers and the
pensioners and army reserve. The total
forces are thus, on paper:
Regulars 1920
YeOmanly 1880
Volunteers 14M
Reserve veterans $1,000
Total. 49s,122
These figures do not vary much from the
actual returns made by Sir Garnet Wolse-
ley in his article in the Nineteenth Centu-
ry magazine. The Indian army. besides
the 1852 regulars above enumerated,
comprises native army of regulars of
LIS, 123 men, and combined native army
under the command Of hereditary chief
tains of 315,OOO men and $500 guns.
Great Britain, in case of war, could,
besides the above forces, control the army
of Egypt Of $4,000 men, and in case of
stress and danger could recruit 1000
men in her various colonies all around the
world.
NAvIEs OF THE GREAT POWERS.
The English navy is, of course, the most
powerful in the world. OF first-class bat
tie ships she has the Inflexible, II. 1855 tons
and four Sl-ton guns, with from 16 to "a
inches of armor plate: the Dreadnaught,
10,950 tons and four 38-ton guns, IA inches
armor plate; Devastation, 9, 100 tons and
four 35-ton guns, u to IA inches armor
plate; Thunderer, 900 tons and two 49,
ton and two 35-ton guns, and eleven other
iron-clads ranging from 8 to 1000 tons,
and all armed with the heaviest ordinance.
Germany has six battle ships. France
eight and Prussia two. while Turkey has
eight. built in Great Britain and splendid
ly equipped. This fleet is now in. Greek
waters commanded by an Englishman,
Hobart Pasha, and, it is thought, will be
turned over to England at the proper time.
Austria has seven battle ships and Italy
UWO, IHe DuIlo auu OdHuOlO, Gu0 u0dVlh ST
armor- plated vessels in the world. % inches
each with four 100 ton guns, and 10, $50 tons
displacement-pertect leviathans of the
sea. Russia has one 14ineh vessel and
one 12-inch vessel, each with four 35-poun-
ders-vessels which rank only with the
second class battle ships of the British ma
| Wy.
The fighting power on the sea of Russia,
Austria, Germany and Italy combined
would not be equal to that Of Great Brit
ain and Turkey, or indeed of England
alone, leaving France out of the combina-
alton altogether. Of coast cruisers Italy
has four plated vessels, Great Brit
ain twelve-all first class, splendidly ar
mored vessels Germany four, Russia four,
France six.
Of coast defenders Russia has five iron
plated vessels, one of them, the Admiral
Popoff, with armor plate Is inches thick,
aud two forty-ton guns; Turkey five, Italy
eight. France six, Great Britain five. It
should be remembered in this connection
that England has recently purchased sew
eral powerful vessels, and that others are
in course of construction. .