Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-02-09
Cluster Chronicle.
JOSEPH KUBLER, . PUBLISHER

The official returns of the strength OF
the regular British army at the close OF
1894 show that there are now rather
more than 222. 600 officers and men on
the regimental rolls, and, including the
first class army reserve of men, VINO
have been thoroughly trained within
very recent years, and who are naple
10 he called upon for service at any
time. the full strength of the regular
military forces is about 1903 900 men
These however. include the West India
regiment, the Royal Malta artillery
n a few corps raised in other parts
Of the world for special local duty, but
who, of course, reduce the demands
upon the ordinary troops. OF the 222'-
600 about 100. 900 are quartercd at nome
nearly rs 5000 being in England ana
Wales, $500 in Scotland. nearly $500
i'm Ireland. and the remainder in the
Channel islands. "A very large proper
ton OF those in England being quar-
tered in the southern parts and con-
venient for the prompt mobilization or
an army corps at short notice. Inc
colonies and Egypt take the services OF
nearly 3S, 900 troops, and 5000 are III
India and Burmah. The Egyptian gar
rison absorbs quite 5000 British sol
diers Of all kinds, besides the many
British officers who are attached 10
the khediVe'S forces either 10 tram or
the native levics; and in the
Mediterranean, Malta has q garrison
Of $500 and Gibraltar one OF nearly
5000, eside the small force KEPT IN
Cyprus. Hong Kong has a force OF
about $500: Bermuda and the straits
settlements have each about 1000, can
ada has only about the same lumber
South Afrina Inn the Wast Indies.
5000: CeYion. 100; and the remainder
OF those troops on colonial duty are
spread over the West African settle
ments. Nautilus and St. Helena, Au-
STRATA containing no imperial troops.
The newly elected president Of the
French republic has already made the
disconcerting discovery that the func'
tons of the Office which he has assumed
are much more difficult To discharge
thar the casual spectator might lniag
inc. They are rendered difficult by the
essential vice Of the French constltu-
tiona system, which make the CHIEF
executive dependent upon the legisla-
ture. and SO places him at the mercy
of the whims, caprices and resentmcnts
OF a chamber whose membership Is Ill
vided into warning factions, whose
course il is impossible To forecast, and
upon whose support for any protracted
period il is never safe to count. The
president must carry on his admins
tratiVe functions through the medium
Of a ministry, and as this ministry Is
subject 10 be forced into retirement ar
any time by an adverse vote in the
chamber of deputies, il follows that
the executive has no real authority,
and can only exercise his functions by
legislative ~sufferance. This would be
bad enough If the chamber a any
real solidarity, If IL were controlled by
two parties OF nearly equal strength.
Under existing conditions. with half a
dozen cliques striving for control, ana
the most in~congruous combinations
constantly being made, il must be wei
nigh intolerable. 1t must be especially
harassing to President Faure, for he Is
In the embarrassing position of owing
a divided allegiance. Ills election was
effected BY a coaluon, made for the
purpose of preventing, at any sacrifice,
the threatening success Of the social
lists and radicals.