THE ARMY OF GERMANY.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 33, 8 March 1878, Page 2

THE ARMY OF GERMANY.

.An intereotinft fcocount of tho Gorman army has recently been published by a French oiliccr, ' who was for *uany yoirs military nttuolio at tho Court of Berlin. h\ a vosumo v contomnorary observer :— The total number of traineil soldiers Germany could dispose of in lime of ami l,.including tlu) troops of tho lnndrttiirm, i r > estimated by tho writer /it from 3,000,000 to .3/300,000, men of \>hnm 1.5)00,000 belong to tho regular nrmy is-nd laudwchr. ()win>; to iniprovtMiiculu which liavo- been mado iu> the details of tho mobilisation scheme since tho war of LS7O-71, tho writer onleuUtes that in three weeks the whole of tho regular army oould bo conceiitraiod on the JA-rnwh frontier; while in another threo weeks the fourth, battalions and six divisioiw of iandwehr troops could bo brou^lit up into line, tlic total, strath of the invud.n^ army being thus raised to about 9)0,000 men. Tlio inobilisiuinnfi' of tho second kvy of ir^ous could nol.bo he^uiMuilil thirtoenth week 250,000 more mm could bn added to tho h'nld force, raisinj; the .strength of this lallei* 150,000, leaving nlill 200,000, recruits it*, tho depots, With regard to the nrmamout oftheOerman tivops, tho author points out that in the ImUeries atiaclwul to divisions the tnnxiiviom load which a horse bus to drnjj bos licon reduced to :U9 l(ilo<»rnnimos, whereas willi tho French fiald'-pioco, model LaliiLolle No. '.i, ench lior f se has n load of 380 kilogramme ;.and finally calls attention to tho caro which ban boon taken to- provide tho cavalry of the German array, with n sorviceablo firearm.