The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-05
EUROPEAN ARMIES.

Although the peoples of Europe mur
mur more and more in opposition. the
burdens of militarism are growing.
Leading statesmen of several of the
great nations have lately expressed
opinions and given semi-official init.
nation that the limit has been reached
but there is no cessation in the activity |
and magnitude of preparation. The
French military budget, the French |
marine budget, and the Austrian mill |
tary budget for 1894 were communi |
Gated to the legislative bodies of the |
respective countries two weeks ago. In
each case provision for increased anna |
ment was asked
The budget Of the French war minis
Try demands credits amounting to $780,
r01, $3.50 francs. 1t provides for 2s,555
officers, which is 215 more than in the
present year; for 526,04s men, or S,351
more than this year. and for Ill, ,05o
horses, 534 more than in 1898. The
French marine budget for 1894 amounts
10 267, 100000 francs. OF this amount
s0,000,000 francs are to be de-
voted to the construction of new
vessels. There will be put on the
stocks this year, according to the pro-
yramme presented in the budget, three
l2,00O-ton ironclads, two first-class
| cruisers, eight second-clnss cruisers,
one torpedo despatch boat and twenty
tour torpedo boats. Provision is asked
Tor the completion during 1894 of other
! vessels already in course of construc-
ton, as follows: Eleven ironclads, five
nrmor-belted. cruisers, one first-class
cruiser, five second-class cruisers, and
two third-class cruisers. in addition to
torpedo, despatch, submarine and
other smaller boats. There will thus
be, in 1894, about u hundred war YES
sells in course of construction or equip
ment for the French navy.
Economy and retrenchment in mill
tary matters have been talked in Aus
tria lately, but the Austrian military
estimates for 1894 provide for neces-
sary expansion" of the army The num-
ber of officers will be increased, addi-
tional horses will be purchased, and
the artillery will be reorganized" on
q broad scale. Seven hundred and thir-
teen additional officers will be gazetted
% infantry regiments during 1894. A
like increase of officers is projected for
the rifle battalions, and few will be
added to the cavalry, artillery and med
ical corps but these reforms will eX-
tend over several years. A brigade of
artillery will be added, making sixteen
instead of fifteen, and total of sixty
four regiments of field artillery. Addl-
tions will also be made to the fortress
artillery. A telephone corps is to be
attached to each army corps
There has been an enormous increase
in the strength of European navies
during the past year or so, and the
: Austrian naval minister calls attention
: to the fact that during last year Great
Britain added to her fleet more vessels
and greater tonnage than that of the
whole of the Austro-Hungarian navy
put together. Twenty-one ships. rep
resenting $1,000 tons displacement.
was England's S addition to her navy in
1892 Russia approached most nearly
to Great Britain in adding to her fleet
during that year, and most of the great
powers notably increased their naval
strength. The report of the naval min
ister says there was an almost feverish
, activity in building during 1892 which
a strained the resources of many state
, yards, as we'll of numerous private
, firms. If, as some wise men argue, the
armament of the nations is the best
guarantee of peace, the millennium
would seem to be at hand.
| All the vessels launched last year by
r the more important countries were
armored ships of the line, with pro.
tected hulls and decks, with displace-
ment between 10000 and $4,000 tons,
, the former being more general The
armor consisted mainly of steel OF
compound plates, and in few cases OF
, nickel steel Nickel steel was also
used to some extent for naval guns.
! The most notable innovation in ma.
). chinery was the use of three screws in
4 some of the larger vessels The use OF
. petroleum has been abandoned on wal
!, ships, on account mainly of the risk OF
fire. The big guns of 100 to 40 tons
continue to give way to those of lighter
calibre, the new guns being, at the
+ most, not more than siXty-eight tons
in weight, with calibre of thirty-foul
J. centimetres against forty-tive cent?
= metres in the big guns. Many experts
consider this reduction in calibre al
!, premature, in view of the recent i'm
provements in ships armor. There was
a great increase in the number O
quick-fring guns of medium calibre uI
to sixteen centimetres. The genera
use of smokeless powder, for guns O
y all calibre, is considered by the com
Q pliers of the Austrian report to b,
4 only q question of short time. Th,
+ Whitehead and the Schwarzkopf tor
/ pedoes are the only ones yet adopted
$ for offensive operations. The expert
ments with submarine boats are noted
S as not being very encouraging, and tina
e form of vessel is not considered to b.
serious factor in naval construction
as yct.-N. Y. Sun.
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