Show J I WAR FORCES COMPARED Relative Strength of the American and Spanish Asiatic A careful and accurate comparison of the war forces of the United States and Spain has been compiled According to h g CI report the Spanish army Is shown t excel In numbers the army of this country coun-try In every branch Thi report of th strength of the Spanish army Is compil 1 strenJth I from the latest statistics attainable nd Is as nearly accurate as a report of ths kind compiled by an American can b Thc author of the report Is one oi r I best posted men in the country on mat I tary affairs and has been watching th > Spanish army closely since the commencement com-mencement of the trouble with Cuba The military ability of the Spanish arm I lies chiefly in tho fact that they an g 1 guerilla fighters The comparison of this report with the report of the UrIfM States militia for IBiS shows mlta U S SpaIn Infantry 13l25 124KO Cavalry C1W 1960 Artier 5623 42ioi I Engineers SOO 1J 2 Signal corps 50 1272 National Guards or reservss105166 141 s As the report of the strength of tno Spanish army shows Spain has besides the men noted 238000 men stationed Ii Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines The complet report Is In March 1S56 exclusive of 56 lie bit tallons and ten rie battalions then in i 11 Cuba there were available for mobilization mobiliza-tion In the Iberia peninsula including tv garrisons of the Baliaric and Canary Islands and of North Africa Infantry Men 55 second battalions at 1000 550i 55 third battalions at lOCO 56TO 10 rifle battalions at 1200 12000 Cavalry 23 regiments at Eli horses and 700 men 1C70S horses 10 0 Artillery 14 field artillery regiments each of S batteries of six guns with an equal number of artillery and infantry ammunition columns2700 3 mountain artillery regiments and I ammunition columns Sir guns 723t 9 battalions fortress artillery partly of 6 and partly of 4 companies SIa Engineers 4 sapner and miner regiments Soort 1 pontoon regiment 34U 1 railway regiment Ifl4 > Signal Corps Total fighting mon 1S > 9 Noncombatants Administrative and sanitary corps 4S15 Sept 30 1S57 201000 troops reported In Cuba and Porto Rico and 27Cm In the Philippines AVAILABLE RESERVE FORCE Infantry Men 112 reserve battalions 56 regiments of 2 battalions at 1000 men112003 Cavalry 14 reserve regiments of 4 squadrons with 600 horses and 702 men 985 Artillery 7 field artillery regiments for each array corps district and 136 guns 11141 Engineers 6OiX Total 14t2 Apart therefore from the troops 11 Cuba there were In March ISM latest r port at hand available on mobillzatio 340000 men with 2516S horses and 952 guns Spain is divided into S army corps districts dis-tricts |