The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-17
Foreign Army Notes.

sAxony's cavalry has . nav sword, three iuohss
shorter and considerably lighter than the old one.
The blade straight and the handle Is Of hard rubber
Ths new weapon 10 more easily handled but less dan
gerous than tho one hitherto used.
AZ Sophia experiments have been made in the last
four weeks to ascertain the the
cannon recently received from the Grus,n Works ia
AagdeburR At distance OF 5000 feet q tsrsst rspr.
ssntng two hsd cannon ami ten men was almost oom.
plstsy demolished by twenty-five shots, A lins OF
thirty wooden soldlers lying six feet apart 90 that
only the heads were In sight OF the marksmep re.
oeirsd tvspsy.six loads Of chAia shos and nine Of
shrspnslL Twenty Of the chain shot and for.yops
pieces OF shrapnsi struck fourteen wooden soldsra
The launching Of the srmorsd battle ship Stella At
Venice last month aided another floating monster to
Naysnavy. 10 but eleven Oh ortsr tn Al the sar.
dogma launched last year In spesa and said to be the
biEsss war ship In the world and 10 almost the exact
counterpart Of the Re- umbe:to, launched in Esp,ss
three Tbs STELLA carries IN armor fourteen
inches thick and has great guns bs, nu
msroas revolving cannon mitrailIsuss Ao. Like the
Sardssna and the Re umberto Ito numbers s7o in
GLIDING ~ officers Of the general stan The soeed Of
the new battle ship is eighteen kuo:s The Stella h.
cost more than 900 has building since 1888,
and will not be fully equipped for action before Il,
summer OF 1894.
several o'rcsrs OF the Austrian army have taken the
course ~ military asronAutics AZ ths Victor Rberer In
s.ttute III Vienna this year Numerous Trims in Ali sorts
OF weather have boon made in the two great air
Budapest and Father RAdstzsy, yet not q siurI.
ACCIDENT mas happened Several trips were 900 or sou
mites LONG And six were made very stormy d.va
in most OF the ascsnsons the officers were able to fol-
low ;r,tiy c!osoy the direction already dserm,n.d
upon. Landings were made In high winds. And in
swamrs rivers and forests without the sigh,est iury
even TO the balloons Tho course OF Instruction rl
close ills month with ssrss OF M by neh, I'm
captive ba!looas for tbs purpose o: making obs.rv.
tons BY means OF flash lights
The programme for the German fall mano.vr.. Il.
complies. The Fourth Army Corps cons.stinr Of IN.
Seventh and Eighth divisions q division of res.rv..
ana another OF cavalry. Will into camp in the vvin
iY OF Erfurt and Gotha Sept. H. Tho two infantry
brgHdcs the regiment OF nsid artillery and tho Mo
nerrs. also ordered out for the mannuvres win n.
brought up by raii on fopt II and l. aud Will he t.
ibutsd among The stAions bet wesn Gotha and Fem,
For the parade IN Er'ur OH Eept u the reru.r, a,
foot artillery No. from Jntrrbog will also b., oallsd in
Thirty thousand men III four dvsons Will be re v.d
at the parade BY the Emperor, On the evening of
eePt. ~ mere VIII he grand tattoo VI all
musicians OF the Fourth Corps we'll AZ OF thu cav
airy division. on the Frederick William square in
Erfurt On Sept - the Fourth Corps IN two arni..
WILL hvht sham battle northwest of Erfurt while III,
cavalry WIZ proceed toward rmsei 10 Determine ina
posil'"h of the advancing Eleventh Corps tn. out,h
ofps WIZ 10 INV the cavalry on sept rs On Sept n
tho imperial heSdqu"r ers will 10 no,sd from Erfurt
10 Aahhaussn. and there on Scpt i; and H. tho ma
hmnVr's OF IA" Fourth Corps against the Eleventh
Corps VIII culminsie On Sept ~ the two corps will
10 united ana will operate sgsinst third corps ~ tenn.
porary formation The size Of the total force In
vowed IN the msnTurres IL not yet Lnown IL will
PROBABLY 10 about8l 10 Is 600 men