The sun., 1890-11-04
Europenn Army Notes.

European Army Notes.
Tho Caar recently bought from the Company Of Vol
snteer Cruisers the man-of Jsrosawl for $4,000
He will give the ship TO the Prince of Montenegro
The affair has stirred mp great commo,ion in Wen.
military and diplomatic circles since according TO
the Berlin treaty. Article 80 Montenegro may rot
war ship, nor ny nag Of war nor admit the
ships Of any nation to her harbor Of AntivarL
The days Of dashing cavalry and cavalrymen on the
Continent to Be numbered. In the French manpu
vres Gen Ferron ordered the cavalry only con-
nns itself TO rsoonnotrina but. even at that. TO
advance beyond the 100 1900 ard limit that Ia
keep outside tho range Of the snemys rifles The Ger
man slesian manGuvres were severely criticised by
German military men because the striking feature
Of them was the throwing together Of great bodies Of
cavalry. Austrian military writer's are advocating.
however most strongly OF all . complete reform OF
the cavalry branch Of the service. The cavalry
be content to lose It's Cd halo Of DASH saantry and
glory just the knights their haos after tho dis.
covery OF Cunpowder The lance must be thrown away
and the sabre must be left In the scabbad The cavalry
must become In fact, merely mounted infantry with
repeating rineS and must be drilled more In shooting
than In riding. No more handto hand strugxlss, no
more sweeping chnrsss excepting perhaps. when the
opposine force 10 also mounted and even then the at
tackled cavalrvmen might do better by sitting still in
the saddle and receiving the advancing enemy with
volley nrng from their rifles Tho time o. brilliant
cavalry charEes on infantry at least gone for good"
writea an Austrian officer, land in the OF the fu
ture the mounted troops must connne themseves to
these duties Advanced guard reconnoitrnk and fent
ing services covering OF batteries escornR convoys;
execution OF quick little surprises, as for instance
hurryinR ahead OF tho operating army taking possos
sion Of some position and holding short time ill
tho infantry comes up"
Capt Edmund Muller. formerly in tho wurtsmberg
division OF the German army has inst let loose another
s1poes OF abuses in the German military. II have
nothing to say" are his words as to how the officers
axpfkn tn tbA ust,h,
Jam heavy metal helmets down on their heads crack
their with rife butts and hit them under the chin
tl they bte their tongues off, These such ordinary
and trivial that viii not burden the reader
with tho narration of them. few OF the nn.d
cruetss. however may he of interest A certain officer
had the habit Of smoking as he passed among
tho sleeping men at night. The are
crowded and hot and uneasy sleepers throw of
unconsoously often tho bed clothes Whenever tho
officer in question q thus uncovered
he pressed the lighted end Of the cigar against the
derest part of his body Its habit Of young recruits
when carrying the gun the loft shoulder to incline
the head slightly TO the right This quite natural
Ofrcer In my regiment accustomed to cure this
habit by holding sharp pruning knife close right
cheek in the vicinity OF tho ear. The slightest move
ment and the recruit cut II he made the quicx
movement OF escape. natural to man under the cir.
cumstAnoea he got slash the cheek entered
the room day Just such fearful had hap
pened and the recruit bleeding and quivering stood
OeIOro
officer away from the recruits 1T and reported tho
matter TO his regiment. After that all OFF.
looked at me askance. My Captain be.
came my bitterest enemy. Tho commander OF my
battalion said little thing of that kind shouldn't be
posted on tho walls and my regiments commander
treated me with mark ed colln.ss The Offending Officer
had eight days OF easy and then advanced
With unusual raDdity while the soldier abused
was maltrsatsd on every possible occasion"
During the last Reichstax tho German Governm ent.
in supplementary eta. called for s4.5 O. with
which to increase the efficiency OF Its strats2
cal railways Most Of this will spent In add ng
TO the existing facilities for soldiers to t
Russian border Two sipRe'track lines In Posen and
Pomerana will bo altered to double.track lnes and
bridge will he built over the We.chseL near Fordun
On the other hand the double track line Kaiser
Homhurg Seunkirchen will be heightened to render
easy the concentration of great bodies Of troops In
short time on tho western frontier This extension is
intended to be partial checkmate of recent French
plans to construct new railway line from the French
interior to the Franco ernan frontier The activity
IN eastern Germany. despite the fact that an
strateScRl railways in that region are still vastly
superior to the corresponding Russian railways the
result OF the growing conviction that the crisis of the
next Kreat European war viii he there rather han
along the Rhine France now has nine through lines to
the tiernan frontier between Bcfort and Mon, ,nledy
and Germany cOnnte balances them with nine rail.
ways OF the same general plan and OF some what
greater efficiency. Germany has ten through lines
from the interior to the Russian frontier ami after
spending the -, so @nin question will have thirteen
while usSia Notwithstanding her recent an eff.
forts in constructing str"ssgical railways oppose
to them but iv,. Thus In Of war. Russia could
place her troops only points Oh the bound.
ary. That Ia at tydtkuanen Graewo. rlawa. Ai-San.
drowo and Mysowtz. Germany, however a few days
after the beginning o: the mobilization, cou! d.
have almost any desired quantity OF troops
At thirteen poiniA The opera ions of tic widely sep.
arsted Russian troops won be greatly embarrassed by
the necessity Of crossing I'll" Weics in the face OF
powerful enemy 1t il probably due TO this unfavoruble
state Of affairs that Russia has apparently gnea
plan OF an ohsnsve camraivn nn the German front
This resignation la evidenced rot only by her neglect
develop the great industrial possibilities of the territory
west OF Warsaw ana to tn.e no OF the enterprise
Lodz Wi.hemsbrnck raj way, which is OF t.. utmost
importance to RrssoermaI commerce hut also by her
Wechsel Warsaw. NOvO G-orgievsk. and Ivan .,iorod
Not ssain-t Germany apparently, does Russia in.
tend to. take the offensive i'll tie coming war
but against Austria six lines of RUSSIAN railways
run FROM the Russian interior up to the Austro Hun
gsrian frontier whore hey MI connect with the
RirdIo shaped line MysowIt1 Kelce Radon Ivan.iorod
Lubln n Kowe -Rowno. This ring railway Is about
three days march from the boundary proper, IA
enough away to escape tn, immediate danger of do.
stru,ti0n yet sufficiently near t. allow OF quick R
Vance OF Kussisn troops into Austrian territory The
assembling OF the Russian army against Germany how
must take place in the country behind ths
Weichsel the Rug and tie h"rew, which territory ID
generally known among German military men as Rus
Sa wedge IN the solid German front" With tins idea
Russia has pushed forward with heroic energy @,
late years the work On her railway mol eas
of ths wschse and of the Weichse has conte
herself with only tho lines absolutely demanded by the
necessities Of trade In view of this state of alta rs
some surprise has been expressed that Germany |,
about to add three lines to the eastern straerca
system OF her ysi Il must be remembered no "
ever that hussa has 2+'t"o Of her best troops con