The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-18
FORB7N ARMY NOTES.

Germ,anWill increase slightly her
force In Hraine next April. The
SeventeenH Regiment will be sent to
MorschlnG and Baden regiment to
Nluihaus8 The garrison at Hagenau
Will also Hre-enforced.
AustrlRis completed the arming of
her mill with small calibrc repeating
rifles, nHl 1883. The new rifles now
maklnA the Steyr shops are merely to
be pac@ away in depots for cases of
emerg& On March 80, the Austrian
intanTnilitia will have 1875, 900 Of tho
Incorporating rifles, with cores
donoE amout of ammunition in the
mlliTarsenals, and even the Dalma-
ton a Tyrolese militia will be SINH
larl &cvided for. The Verdi rifles,
| glv&p by the Austrian, Tyrolese and
DaBtian militia will be utilized for
arlG the land guard of the last call.
Pc Freycinet and Miribel are COM
pi&g plans for the reorganization Of
tfBrench colonial army. Their pur-
P8 is to have in the colonies we'll
& plined force of $4,000 men ready
Wable in all emergencies to guard the
@cral Governments interests in it's
Tendencies so that the Continental
Bny may be free to devote its full
IHhting strength to the Continental
9rvice. The new Colonial army will
bnstitute the Twentieth and Twenty
frst Army Corps, and will consist of
ive-Year volunteers with higher paw
md larger special rewards for extraordi-
lary merits than are known in the Con-
mental standing army.
The growth of the city population in
Germany at the expense of the country
las caused considerable alarm among
he military wiseacres there. The gem
raj apprehension is that the strength
# the nation as recruiting force for
he army is greatly diminished by the
migration of the peasants and agricul-
ural laborers. A writer for the Grenz-
'oten shows that only 3.s men capable
# bearing arms are found on the aver
!ge in the thousand inhabitants of a
German city, while the population in
he country is 10 to 1000. Moreover,
III German recruiting officers agree
hat the peasant boys are three times
he able soldiers that the city boys are.
)ne of them writes: ''Of what use is
he development of trade and manufac-
ures, art and education, if we continue
o fall short thus of men able to carry
rms and defend from tho enemy these
ruits of culture?
Two French army corps took part last
vear-frst separately and then toy ether
in the autumn man9uvres. This year,
instead of two army corps, upwards of
our will be called upon to manmuvre in
he country situated between Chalons-
and Epernay. The Sixth
Army Corps-which is the strongest
Ind most important of all, as it is so
organized that it may be able to bear
he brunt of sudden attack by Ger
one of them. Tho other army
corps chosen are the Fifth, the Seventh,
md the Eighth. Each will contain
light regiments of infantry, rife
q brigade of cavalry. and
eighteen batteries of artillery Two of
he corps will operate against the other
,wo, the armies being commanded by
Zen. de Galliffet and Gen. Davout Due
1 Auerstaedt, under the supreme direc-
lion of Gen. Saussler, the military gov
,rnor of Paris, who. in the event of war
breaking out, would be the commander
n-chief of the French forces. To the
our army corps will be added two di-
'isions Of independent cavalry. The
will last over fortnight.