Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-05
MILLIONS OF SOLDIERS.
Fsrcos which the B1rOpeAn Powers Ma
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Fsrces which the BuropeAn Powers May
Summon 70 Battle.
IL II evident that the days Of war are
drawing near in Europe, says the New York
Graphic. What a terrible struggle it prom
tses TO bel A match may blow up maya,
zine, jar explode dynamite, and .
drunken quarrel on the frontier threatens
10 ignite the train Of destruction
France is quiet The Polish chiefs whS
have 50 long resided in Paris have re-
moved TO Vienna Montenegro, the stormy
petrol Of Russian intrgues against Eu-
ropean Turkey, is in another row with the
sultan's representatives. The Servian
King, Milan, is on q debauch, which means
that he Is In Austrian control, while his
quasi-wife, Queen Nathalie, is away from
Belgrade and nearer TO Russian influences.
Stepniak, the Russian exile, who leads all
exterior movements Of the revolutionists
against the Gar, remains in London, in
stead Of coming TO America, as he de-
signed. His reasons for doing so are OBJ
vious TO students Of the European under
world. Russia itself, like Germany, is q
vast military camp, but, unlike the latter,
Is In large degree all on fire.
II will be wor tn while to see what a con-
hict means. Napoleon said Cossack or Re-
publican. Carnot, as President Of the
French Republic, has the tradition Of "Ca
Ira" in his blood, and even wealth and
scholarship may not keep il down and quiet.
Germany wants another army. "If General
MacIver is right that means the capture Of
Courland and Lithunia, Russia's Baltic
provinces. But apart from aggression it
may be well to inquire what it is Bismarck
really has 70 meet in the event Of war.
France and the "Revanche Is q quantity
10 be considered even though she be appar-
emily as uncertain as that involved in an
attempt to square the circle.
Russia, according to the latest figures,
has an active army Of 43, 40 Officers, 1885,
493 in rank and file, 31s,S52 horses and 8, 794
guns. The reserves Of the empire consist
Of 3,041 POS in the rank and file, with SIS, S52
horses and :, 1856 guns. This Is q total of
5,2S2, 900 men. The cavalry figures do not
show the effective strength of Russia in
that arm. She may easily add half a
million Of mounted electives to the number
gwen above. Take her forces all through,
Russia can mobilize over three million of
men, of whom one-third may be valuable
as cavalry or infantry. In the machine per-
lection Of stan, administration and logistics,
outside Of cavalry raiding, Russia will not
be equal to Germany.
France, her only possible ally, outside of
Greece and Montenegro, can place in the
field an active army Of 80 So officers, $780,
900 in rank and ile; and . reserve OF 5000
officers and /, Az, 900 rank and fle, making .
total war force Of 8, 4OS, 500 men, oficered by
7o,497, and having $4,000 horses and 6,62o
guns.
Against this possible array Of over $780,
900 Russian and French soldiers, Of which
at least !, zoo, 900 are reported to be cavalry,
backed by 10,606 guns or field artillery, Ger
many presents an active army Of IS, 997 OH
GERS, 1,212, OF in rank and fle $50, 32S horses,
and ,S4S guns. Her present reserves num-
Der 16, 203 Ulcers, 1854 in rank and file,
with a, 70 horses and $40 guns, making
total Of 5000 OH GERS, 2,023, 1853 rank and
file, 396, 06S horses, and 4,424 guns. With
the 1000 additional levies called for by the
Reichstag. the German imperial army will
number, officers and men, about $500, 600,
with not less than $4,000 horses and over
5000 guns.
Her allies will bring the following forces
into operation:
Austria Hungary's army, active and re-
serve, numbers SO, 800 officers and 1878, 900
Of rank and file, with III ,04S horses and
$500 guns. Italy can send TO the field or
mobilize an army Of "a, 7os officers and 2,377,-
$50 Of rank and file, with g., 400 horses and
$50 guns.
This is total for Russia and France of
400, 900 officers and 6,64l, 405 rank and file,
with 500, $50 horses and 10,606 guns.
For Germany, Italy and Austria Hun gary
force is shown Of 6,214,243 men, with 49,
0S9 officers at least. When Germany's 70O,-
600 new levies are added it will make an al
lied force Of 6,914,243, without the officers.
There will be in the three armies $50, ll6
horses and 6,4S4 guns.
The five powers that IL is supposed may
be directly involved will thus be able to
command united forces amounting on tho
side Of Russia and France to 9, O0O, 900 officers
and men, while the three allies opposing
them will have armies Of 100000. There
will be 1900 guns and at least 1900 900
horses in the field.
But this is not all. The allies Of Central
Europe may properly count on Servia and
Turkey, and probably Roumania when the
pinch comes. Bulgaria will not be insignif-
cant either as a make-weight They will
stand as follows: