Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-05
E STRENGTH.
The Army, Navy and Other FissHths NC
sources of the Hellenic kingts'm.

| The Army, Navy ana June
sources of the Hellenic kingtsoin.
Greece is divided. since March, 1883,
into three military districts for recruit
| ing and administrative pu1poses-"thc
eastern district, with its headquarters
| at Larissa: the western. headquarters
| Missolonghi; and the southern, hea0-
| quarters at Athens. The peace effective
of the Greek army. including non-com-
batants. was 20. $50 officers and men,
with GA guns, in 1888; and 2o,692 in
| 1884. Deducting non-combatants, the
| effective would be about $4,000. This
force consists of the following units:
81 battalions of infantry of the line and
8 pattalions of rifles. Total. So bat
t%alions; II squadrons g battalions
or regiments9 Of cavalry; s field and 8
mountain batteries (i battalions); 4
fortress batteries q battalion); II
companies 6 battalions) of en-
| gineers; 1 company OF train.
| There is q gcndarmerie force of 1860
! officers and mere. BY calling in the re-
| serves, it is estimated on paper that
the Greek field army could be raised to
an effective of $4,000 men; but it will
be more correct to put down that
effective at $4,000 men. Besides the
active army and Che reserve, Greece
has a landwchr, comprising all men up
to forty years Of age who have served
in the active army and reserve. The
number of that landwehr is IN I'M
known quantity. The armament Of
the Greek army is perhaps n OF its
most satisfactory features. The in
fantrv and the engineers are armed
with the Gras rifle, the csMalry with the
Gras carbine. There aresabout 100000
rifles Of this model in the %arsenals, be-
sides $4,000 Chasscpot and Nlylonas
rifles. The field artillery is armed with
Krupp oAcentimeter, S-ccntimcter, sanol
7.5-ccntimetcr guns; the mountain ar
tillery with guns of Il calibnr of
7.5-centimetcrs. Thereis alsoa sufficient
supply of heavy siege guns,-all of ailne
material having been supplied by
Kr9lpp. There is a comparatively large
store of artillery material 2or the re-
serve forces.
The Greek navy would not prove -
very formidable opponent to. that OF
Turkey. neglected though tie latter
has been. Greece possesses ns.qnodern,
iron-clad. tie additions moss recently
made and still being made, to her"navy
consisting OF sumarmored gunboats and
torpedo boats. Her only two ironclads:
are the armomd corvette Olga and the
iron-clad gunboat Vasileos Georgios-
the former launched in 1869, the latter
in 1867. Tho@total displacemeaJ'of'thc
two vessels i5s 1884 tons, their COM
bined horsepower 1850, there ar1na-
ment four 17~ecntimeter guns and two
17-centimeter and two 2~1-centinseter
guns respect arly, besides iiglip; guns
and mitraillcuses. The corvette has. u
speed of only 10. miles. the gunboat Of
II miles. Thesarmor of the corvette is
only 100 millil mtcrs (if inchesi thick;
the thickcst armcr-plate of the gunboat
is ITS millimcters (ncarly evc inches}4
TIE Greek nay comprises besides, Of
larger vessels, .A!a unarmored czxrvettes
EEellas and Admiral Miaulis, cfiatotal
displacement OF 300 tons, an ag-
grvgate horsepower of 3,7Hs,' and
aa armamen3z of 10 heavy and S
ligTIt guns anGiA mitrailleuses., Each
Of skem carries besides two 5Drpcdo-
boots. They have a speed of 1ltand 10
miles rcspcctirelM- The number of un-
a1s1hored gunboaus is II, beside ID build
Ing. in this country. The gsnboats
lnu5st heavily smlad (cach With a: rs,
centimcter gum; are the Hvdrmana the
Spetsia. both Of which aro provided
wish protecti5e, shields for The guns
i ;Al,n other DO; ns, carry guns of a&lightea
ealIbcr. Greece possesses 10 torpedo
se3ts e first ,lass and II seccnd-class9
Cor fish and s ssE' 1orpedoes, andaa toE,
seeo depot slip (the Psara}. Of 1;10G
aa1rs, 500 horsepower, armela with :
observation-disclosures, 2 Whitehead tor
pedo launching. guns, and 2. torpedo
. launching tuops below the N7aherr line
Ilse Psara iss at present also equippee
: with 6 launcaess armed with, spar Dor
: pedocs, but she. is to receive 4 torpsa6
: beats. Six %anEedoes are stared in. he
torpedo chamber. She hasa speed O
= IA miles. r.sie Greek Government. Ia
= ordered 6 iirst-ciass torpeco-boatss. an
there are available at present, 20 sinai
steamboats, for spar torpcG0es, as,wel
as 3 hulks or planting to aeedoesS Th'
t other vcssolS.@f the Greelsnayy inclnd
Il 9 paddlc-TAheel Transports (ore,. th
Ii Anlphitrit q. Being the fastest. vessel; G
n the Greek nary, having ii speed Of i
: miles,; 4 IRON gun-boats in sections:
4 each arnzYAi with Il 12-oentimeter @n
q and tittef up for spactorpeancs;; b
sides II 7csspIs. steam and sailing, TO
L. arsenal and harbor service. The ae
: gregate Sonnage of tbs, Greek Navy
IA about $4,000, its to,nl' halse1sowe
about 10000, the nunsber.of; gums cal
{, ried-hcavy 80, light 20, nltrail.euse
:. %. Thssvessels building wiz add. whc
is completed, about $40 tons and LOO
/. horsepower to the creek navy.-Lo1
y don Y3anes.
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