Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-08-21
PRESIDENT POiNCARE
AND FRENCH iNFAhTRY.
ARMY WAR STRENGTH
100000

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three powers in the triple entente
there are approximately 100000 men.
The troops of the Balkan states. Ser
via. Roumania. Montenegro and Bull
garia, as well as of Greece, are trained
veterans today. having emerged re-
Gently from arduous campaigns against
Turkey.
Relative Fighting Strength.
Assuming that the war must spread
from the local field to other strategic
points. the strength OF the three great
powers Of the entente is Of vital mo-
ment Russia is believed to have at
least 5.500.000 soldiers in its army
when the full war strength of its es.
adjustment Is called out The esti
mate for France is 2.500.0O0 to 1000.
000 while that OF Great Britain is less
than q fifth Of that of Russia and less
than one-half of the minimum of
France. being about 100000 men. In
clash between the three great powers
of the triple alliance and the three OF
the triple entente the navies must nee.
essarily play great part, If not the
chief part
Just what the objective will be when
the great forces are launched forth
upon foreign soil can only be deter
mined by the exigencies of the cam.
paign II it is a seacoast or port
then the navy may virtually decide the
struggle before the army gets TO the
field to strike it's blow
Navies In the Entente.
Russia's naval complement today is
approximately 200 vessels or this
number thirteen are battleships. six
armored cruisers. eight cruisers. nine
ty-fve destroyers. forty-two torpedo
boats. thirty-one submarines Aiming
to waylay an enemy's navy and pre-
vent its reaching certain point or
uniting with the navy Of a friendly
power. the cruisers and destroyers and
auxiliary vessels would be able to do
good work
The naval strength of France is near
ly three times that of her copartner.
Russia. France already has two Dread.
noughts afioat, twenty-seyen other bat
tleships, twenty-five armored cruisers.
fifteen cruisers, eighty-four destroyers.
three hundred and twenty-four torpe-
do boats and seventy-eight subma-
rines. Thus France alone would make
very good showing against Germany
alone on the sea. Germany having few
er vessels in number than France. or
against Austria and Italy combined.
the two navies of which number but
three hundred and four vessels against
the Eve hundred and tifty-two of
France. Germany is stronger in battle
ships than France, but not so strong
In armored cruisers nor in torpedo
boats
Great Britain's Sea Power.
A great European conflict is almost
unthinkable unless the tremendous sea
power of Great Britain, would play a
part England's naval force is greater
than that of France If the number of
vessels in a navy is to be taken as an
indication of its effective strength. Eng.
land has thirteen OF the class of super
DreadDoughts, of which class no power
In the triple alliance has even one
afioat today, although Germany has
three in the process OF building. AS
| for Dreadnoughts. OF which Germany
has seventeen, Great Britain has six
teen to supplement- her thirteen super.
Dreadnoughts and forty eight other
battleships as against the thirty OF
this class in the German navy. In
cruisers and destroyers, torpedo boats
and submarines. vessels for speed and
rapid action, England is again the
superior OF Germany.
Great Britain's destroyers number
two hundred and fifteen, Germany's
destroyers one hundred and forty-one;
Great Britains torpedo boats number
one hundred and eighteen as against
Germany's forty-seven. and Great Brit
aims submarines number seventy-seven
to Offset twenty-seven in the navy Of
the kaiser.
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