GERMAN OFFICERS.
TO INSTRUCT BRAZILIAN ARMY. -By Telegraph.— Press Association.-Copyright. BERLIN, 7th November. It has been arranged that only Ger■man officers shall instruct the Brazilian Army. * [The strength and organisation of the Brazilian Army is as follows :— General staff, 2S; engineer staff, 66; general staff corps, 124; medical staff, 163; artillery staff, 62; six regiments hi field artillery (24 batteries), 2412; sis battalions ■ fortress artillery (24 batteries), 1984 ; two battalions engineers, 862 ; 14 cavalry regiments, 5670; one transport corps, 278; 40 infantry battalions, 17,840; total, 29,489. Reorganisation has been in progress for some months. A law sanctioned in 1908 establishes obligatory service from 21 to 44 — two years with the colours and seven in the reserve, seven in the .second line, four in the National Guard, and four in the reserve. German financiers' interests in Brazil are considerable; there is presumably no secret as to the heavy indebtedness of the latter country to Germany. Eecently a new telegraph company was formed, under the title of the German South 'American Telegraph Company, Limited, with its headquarters' at Cologne, the special object being to lay and work submarino cables from Germany, via Teneriffe or Liberia, to Brazil and to the German colonies in West and South-west Africa. Sub•sidies which the German Government consented to grant will ensure the payment of interest and sinking fund nn the bonds to be issued by the company as well as a sufficient rate of interest ,on the share capital,]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 112, 8 November 1910, Page 7
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