Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-13

are called out for training and ma
neuvers twice during their term, each
time for twenty-eight days.
The soldiers of the territorial army
have one training during their term,
lasting two weeks. and those of the
territorial reserve no periodical train
ing. But all classes are today receiv-
ing the highest form of training pos
sible, for all the men OF France under
forty-eight years of age are fighting
battle. All are called to the colors
not one available man can be spared.
even to the military attaches of the
embassies of France.
The French army is territorialized
and localized. France, including AL
geria. is divided into twenty-one army
corps regions" and each region, with
the exception of Algeria, furnishes a
complete army corps and variable
numbers Of units of cavalry and garri-
son artillery. Each of the eight in
fantry regiments of corps is recruited
from its regimental district, plus q
regional regiment. recruited from
the whole region at large. The reserve
troops form divisions corresponding to
those Of the first line. and the terri
torial army divisions corresponding to
those of the reserve. This is, with &C.
casional exceptions, the general scheme.
Algerian troops have their own reserve
formation of all branches.
The whole French army is divided into
two parts. styled the "metropol tam
and the colonial armies. The colonial
metropolitan. and cons SITS of troors
partly white and partly native. The
ordinary regular peace strength of the
first Is more than 100000. and that of
estimated that in a war requiring
France to put forward her entire
strength about 13s0,00O troops could
be mustered. and it Is thought that the
number now engaged approximates this
total
= The strength Of the arms Of France is.
in times Of peace, vided about as fol-
lows: Infantry, $4,000; cavalry. 10000;
artillery, 1880; engineers. $4,000: army
service corps, 10000; various STATS and
services such as medical corps. ETC., 9 90.
and military schools, the pupils of which
rank as combatants 1000. There are
also several forces which can be ranked
as troops and which have nothing in
Anglo-Saxon and certa n other countries
exactly to correspond with them. The
"gendarmerie" Of France is a military
police force recruited from the REGULAR
army. but performing civil duties in time
Of peace. The total strength Is about
% 900 men. of whom half are mounted.
The Guarde Renubicaine IS also a police
force on duty in Paris and its environs,
but the training. uniforms and equip
ment thereof are distinctly military
1t possesses about 1000 men, 500 of
whom are mounted. and has one of the
finest military bands III Europe. a band
which is given the post of honor during
the great Longchamps review, which
takes place each year on the anniversary
Of the fall Of the Bastille. and which
plays, alternating with it's drum and
bugle CORPS, in front of the president al
box during the march past Of the troops.
There are also the military customs
corps of t.irty-eisht battalions and
large force of "chasseurs forestiers,"
both recruited from troops who have
been passed into the territorial army,
and both Of which can be employed as
garrison troops when needed. The aero
nautical corps is divided into three
territorial groups. There are at present
in the regular forces twenty-seven sec
tons of eight aeroplanes each, ten cav