The morning times., 1895-09-01

Berlin, Aug. 31.-The importance and
magnitude Of the forthcoming great autumn
maDeuvers, called the Kaiser mancuyers,"
because Of the circumstance that the kaiser.
in person attends them and reviews the
troops participating, is made clear by
plain statement of figures.
The south army, advancing fromth south
and southwest, is composed OF the third
army corps and the Imperial Guards. The
latter. with its ordinary reserve strength
battalions, OF quarter battalions as they are
termed. filled up to fun battalions. number
therefore nine regiments OF infantry OF four
battaHons each, or thirty-six battalions OF
infantry, one Of rifle guards, one OF chas-
seurs eight regiments OF cavalry, two
regiments OF field artillery and one battalion
each of engineers and conmissa riat.
The third army corps. leaving its skeleton
quarter hattalions in the garrisons, will
number eight regiments OF infantry Of three
battauons each, or twenty four battalions
OF infantry, one battalion Of chasseurs, four
regiments of cavalry and two of field ar
tillery and the single battalion each Of
engineers and commissariat
THE SOUTH ARMY
The total strength of the South Army
amounts, therefore, to sixty battalions OF
infantry and three Of rifles and chasseurE
twelve cavalry regiments, four artillery
regiments, and Two battaIions each Of en-
gineers and commissariat
The North Army, marching from the
east. north and northwest. is composed
OF the Second and Ninth army corps The
Second army corps win number eight regi-
| meuts, organized like the guards Of four
battalinns each, or thiTty-two battalions
of infantry, four regiments Of cavalry two
regiments OF field artillery and single
/ bataliOus OF engineers and coulmissariat.
The Ninth army corps is composed OF
| eight regiments, each consisting Of three
full battalions and q skeleton battalion,
the latter being the niucL-d discussed Fourth
battalion This amounts to twcnty-four
fun battalious and eight skeletons, in
addition TO which The corps ha sa ChasSeu
battalion. four regiments OF cavalry. two
Of field artillery and a field battalion
/ each of engineers and con.missariat
The North Army viii therefore aggregate
ffty-siX battalions and eight skeleton
battalions OF infantryl and one Of chas-
seurs, eight regiments OF cavalry and four
Of field artillery and the two battaliOns
each Of engineers and commissariat
To this great force are to be added two
regiments OF railway troops and a battalion
OF ballo0Esrs.
An important part in the maBeuvers VIII
DE played by the little Randow river, which
forms the boundary between PomeranIa and
Uckormark While Of itself an exceedingly
unimportaut stream for miles with its tribu-
tariaF ft spreads over wide areas of swanps,
forming broad ponds, which extend for a
distance Of fifty kiloTneters. Only two high
roads lead across these swamps, all other
paths being Impossible except for pedes-
! trians. The TWO high roads are twenty
knoneters apart. the northern one at Lock
WITT and the southcrIy one at SchinolIn.
Under these circumstances the engineers,
/ poutooners and sappers VIII have a very
difficult and heavy task 10 make the neces-
1 sary roads FOR the movement Of troops, es-
pecially toprovidc ways cavalry marches
and for the advance of artillery. The so
called Streithefen dam. running from Bage-
muhl to streighof, has been widened 70 ad-
nit the passage Of single horsemen, but must
be- further extended to this width to let
artillery across. The Stettin,P asew alkra1l-
way line croEsesat LoCkwitz, where themust
interesting scenes of the maneuvers VIII
take place.
ARABIAN SLAVE TRADE.
The charges recently made by the Etoils
Beige, the organ of the Congo government,
against the German authorities and trad
ers in the Congo region Of assisting the sale
or arms to Arabs ah-d siave-dealers met
with anindignant denial by the Cologne Ga
zette. This denial elected a reply from
the Etoile Beige which declared that proof
existed that an English dealer named
Stokes had sold all his stack Of arms and
other gonds throughout the German pos