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the marine. There are besides 4 recruiting districts in Bosnia and Herze- govina.
The yearly contingent of recruits for the common array amounts to 103,100 ; from Austria 59,211 ; from Hungary 43,899; besides these is a yearly con- tingent, 22,500, for the Landwehr or Honvedseg, the Austrian Landwehr contingent being 10,000, the Honvedseg 12,500 (yeal'ly) (Wehtgesetz, Vedfe- rotorveuy) Bill of Army of 1889).
The following table shows the actual strength (officers, men, and horses) of the Austro-Hungarian army on peace footing in 1898 : —
—
Officers
Men
Total
Horses
j Common Army —
1 Staff ....
3,738
3,843
7,581
14
j Establishments
1,536
7,680
9,216
494
] Infantry
9,454
177,109
186,563
704
Cavalry
1,874
45,506
47,380
38,144 1
Artillery —
Field
1,636
28,152
29,788
1,248
Fortress .
412
7,760
8,172
134
Pioneers, &c.
575
9,918
10,483
19
Sanitary troops .
79
2,854
2,933
—
Train ....
393
3,253
3,646
1,849
Austrian Landwehr —
Infantry
2,168
20,657
22,825
118
Cavalry
196
1,899
1,095
1,401
Hungarian Honvedseg —
Infantry
2,132
20,797
22,929
122 !
Cavalry
Total
390
4,200
4,590
3,510 1
24,583
333,628
358,211
47,757
On war footing the nuniVters are put at 45,238 officers, 1,826,940 men, and 281,886 horses, Avhile the number of men who would be obliged to serve in the Levy-in-ilass is over 4,000,000. In peace the number of guns, exclusive of fortress artillery, is 1,048, in war 1,864. The infantry is armed with the Mannlicher rifle.
III. Navy.
The Austro-Hungarian navy is mainly a coast defensive force, maintained in a state of high efficiency, and including a flotilla of monitors for the Danube. It is administered by the Naval Department of the Ministry of War. The new ships are to replace others growing obsolete, and the pro- gramme provides for a fleet of 15 armourclads between 6,000 and 9,000 tons, 7 second-class ciliisers (4,000 to 7,000 tons), 7 third-class cniisers (1,500 to 2,500 tons), 15 torpedo gunboats, and 90 various torpedo boats, exclusive of the Danube flotillas. The headquarters of the fleet are at Pola, an<l there are other establishments upon the Dalmatian coast. Rating the old ships among
