18 AUSTRIA.
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Number
Description of Troops of Standing Army — continued
Peace-
War-
footing
footing
Artillery : —
12 regiments of field-artillery, each of 14 batteries
17,880
43,836
12 battalions of fortress, anil 2 battalions of rnoun-
I
Total of artillery .
7,778
18,938 j
25,658
~62,774 j
Engineers and Train : —
2 regiments of ' Genie,' each of 4 battalions .
4.662
13,240
1 regiment of pioneers, of 5 battalions .
2,803
7,747
54 squadrons of ' Fuhrwesen,' or train .
Total of engineers and train . Miscellaneous Establishments : —
2,401
24,147
45,134
9.866
Military instruction ......
2,234
2,234
Topographical survey ......
128
128
Commissariat and clothing departments .
3,705
7,200
Sanitary department ......
1,291
6,200
Arsenals, military stores, and buildings .
3,000
4,500
Army studs ........
5,800
5,800
Military police and gensdarmes .... Total of miscellaneous establishments Total, inclusive troops of reserve .
7,700
7,700
23,858
33,762
278,470
838,700
The general staff of the army on active service, in April, 1869, comprised 3 field-marshals, 18 generals of infantry (Feldzeug- meister), and generals of cavalry; 72 generals of division, and 111 generals of brigade. There were besides non-active, 28 generals of infantry, and generals of cavalry, 150 generals of division, and 193 generals of brigade.
By the terms of the ' Compromise ' come to between Austria and Hungary, on which was based a new army organisation, coming into operation in 1869, the military forces of the whole empire are divided into the Standing army, the Landwehr, or militia, and the Landsturm. The regiments of the Standing army are under the control of the Minister of War of the Empire, and the Landwehr under the control of the Austrian and Hungarian Ministers of Landes- vertheidigung. All orders relating to great concentrating movements of troops must emanate from the King-Emperor, the supreme chief of the whole of the military and naval forces of the Empire.
The Standing army is formed by conscription, to which every man is liable who has reached his 20th year. The term of service is ten years, three of which the soldier must spend in active service, after which he is enrolled for the remaining seven years in the army
