Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-05-12
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$4,000 Men IN
RUSSIAN army
OF These 100000 Are Stationed
on Western Front.
TROTzKY IS IN SOLE CHARGE
Council Snd General : aft, Composed
OF Cd Generals, Utterly Without
inf.uence-1co Geo Soldiers on 3 7ck
Sea Coast, in Azerbaijan and FER
sia-Army of Interior Is Really
Police Force and Is Composed Of
10000 Men.

Officially the forces of the soviet
are divided into - armies, writes
correspondent to the Daily Telegraph,
bun of these only II exist in reality.
On paper every army has from three
to five divisions of infantry and at
least one cavalry division. The total
number of infantry divisions is GO
and there are Is divisions of cavalry.
Each division, cavalry or infantry, is
divided into three brigades, and these
In their turn consist of three regi
mcnts. An infantry re 5imcnt Is com
posed of three battalionS Of three
companies each. Three cavalry
squndronS form Il regiment.
Every company should have $50
men I'm the fighting line and squad
ron $50. Therefore the total mum
bers of combatantS in the infantry
and cavalry should be respectively
$4,000 and 10000. The real figures
are nearer GOO,OoO and 10000 men re-
spectively for the two arms.
Man 10000 Machine Guns.
To every infantry regiment belong
from 20 to "A machine guns, and from
10 to II in the cavalry. The Red
armies dispose, therefore, on paper,
of at least 10000 machine guns.
These are of various SystemS-NlnXim.
Colt and Lewis. The artillery has Il
nominal establishment of 1880 guns,
light and heavy. but the real number
is considerably less, and does not
probably exceed 1000. including all
field artillery. Each division has spe-
cial signaling, aviation. moor trans
port and army service units. The
number of non-combatantS in a di-
vision is extraordinarily high, and
nearly equals that of the men in the
fighting line.
According to the latest Information
the armed forces of the sOyictS are
distributed in the following manner:
In the northern Caucasus, on the
Black sea coast, in AZerbaiun and
in PerSin, 100000 men; in Central
Asia and Siberia, 100000. and at least
4OO, 600 on the western front (uf these
about 10 per cent are cavalry.
Council Without Power
AT the head of this military ma
chine stands the revolutionary coun-
ell, which is practically reduced to
TrOtZky alone. He is the supreme
chief. Attached to the council is the
hcadQuartcrs staff. At its head stands
Kamenefr. the commander in chief.
For purposes of policy, and to throw
dust i'm the eyes of the allies, there
Is special advisory board composed
of old generals. with BrusSiloT as
chairman. But It has no influence
Whatsoever.
Reports on the quality of the Red
army vary to an extraordinary de-
gree and force one to the conclusion
that its component parts are very I'M
equal in quality. Some units seem to
he tolerably good few are very
good fighting material; but q conSid-
cradle number seem to deserve only
the name of conScriptcd rahhle Arm
ament and technical appurtenances
seem to exist more on paper than In
reality.
The army of the INTERIOR which l.
really police force, Is about $1,000
strong. and Is quite Independent o.
the organization described above. II
Is used to suppress all popular move
ments and to enforce the execution o.
the DEGREES Of the soviet government
1t consists mostly of tried commun-
lists and of Lettish, Hungarian and
Chinese mercenaries,