The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-30
GIGANTIC ARMIES
 MAY BE CALLED
WAR FOOTING FORCES OF EURO
 PEAN COUNTRIES INVOLVED IS OVER s6,0oo,ooo
Germany Believed to Have the Most
 Perfect Fighting Machine of All the | Land Forces.

Six million men are available for llwar in the event that the crisis be- ltween Servia and Austria Hungary should involve all Europe.
 Austria, large as she is in terri tory and population, does not out number lServia. But the seriousness of the situation is in the fact that once hostilities between the two prin- cipals begin general war might break out.
 Should Russia make good her threat to aid Servia 1t is believed Germany and Italy might join their ally Austria. In such circumstance it is believed that Great Britain and France, the two remaining powers in triple entete, would not permit their ally Russia to fight such a serious battle alone. This might mean the arraying of Russia, France and Great Britain-and possibly Roumania-on the side of Servia, and Germany and Italy on the side of Austria, with the possibility that the Balkan nations and Turkey may be dragged into the quarrel Austrias army is credited with a peace strength of 415,000 men and 1S,SS0 guns, which the first line reserves would increase 1t in a few days to S00,00O men.
 Behind these, hundreds of thou sands of men could be mustered out who have some military training and who would fill the gaps in the field army. Servia can mobilize all of her male population able to bear arms to the number of 324,000, in fort nights time, although she maintains only 36,000 men in time of peace.
 3,ooo,o00 Men for Germany.
 As Austria must guard the Russian frontier and leave some troops in the great Slav territory to restrain out bursts of revolution, it can be seen that any army she might attempt to throw across the Danube into Servia would not be of overwhelmed strength, Then too the Servian army is largely composed of veterans with a record of first rate achievement in the Balkan wars.
 Germany's field army in time of war numbers 1,22O,000 men and her entire system of mobilization and strategy is based upon an invasion of France and simultaneous re- sistance to a Russian attack upon her back door. Behind this field army stands an active reserve of 600,000 men of the Landwehr. and behind them still 1,5O0,O0O men who have had military training.
 On a peace footing the Russian army numbers 1,3S4,0 men of all corps, distributed over her European and Asiatic possessions. Many of these men would not be available for use in an European war. But mili- tary experts concede that Russia could hurl a great army of 100000 men across the German and Austrian frontiers, these men comprising the regular European army corps and the first line reservists. Behind them in turn are several million trained and partly trained men.
 France, too, would be an effective ally of the Seryians on land. The active army within continental France is thought to number about 600,000 men and the outbreak of war would mean the instant increase of the field army to 1.300,000. which might be still further increased by the recall ,of troops from Algeria and drafts from 100000 trained reserves from the second line.
 On peace basis the Balkan army consists of slightly more than 300,- 900 men. The field army in time of war would muster nearly 500,0G0 men of troops from Algeria and drafts from the mobile militia to S00,000. Behind these troops stand the territorial militia, more than 2,000000 men.
 England is not expected to account for much i'll military operations on lands. Her allies would expect her to smash or bottle up the German fleet and then send her navy to assist France in. wiping out the Austrian and Italian squadrons in the Medi- terranean and Adriatic seas. But Eng lands most efficient help would un- doubtedly consist in an attempt to destroy the German navy and mer. cantile marine and in blockading the ports of the North Sea.
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