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Show The French Army. The London Saturday Review speaking of tlve French army, saye: "Now in 1870 the utmost force that could be put in lino within a month against the enemy was 250,000 men, and even this comparatively small army was insufficiently provided with many requisites re-quisites for campaigning. Behind the 250,000 were about aOO.OOO for reserves and garrisons. This, year, according to the statement of the writer (in Blackwood's Magazine), three weeks only would elapse before 155,000 men were in the field, having hav-ing behind them such a mass ot troops for reserves, for camps and garrisons as would raise the total of the active army to 1,300,000 men; nor must it t be forgotten that the services of all these men would be really available, because the lines ol all communications communica-tions and other vulnerable points out of reach of the enemy would bo sufficiently suffi-ciently guarded by the men of the territorial army, which, though not yet thoroughly organized, would be quite capable of performing such subordinate taBkB." |