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Show Miscellany Sweden's Strength. Like practically all European countries, the military system of Sweden Is based primarily on universal service, but there is also a nucleus of a professional military mili-tary organization, which serves as a training' corps for the men who are called to the colors each year and who are liable for service for a period extending over twenty-three years from 20 to 42 years of age, inclusive. The first division in the universal service ser-vice scheme is known as the first "upp-bad," "upp-bad," or category, and is for eleven years; the second is for four years, and the last (the landsturm, or reserves) is for eight years. The first period of training for the infantry is 1'50 days; for the cavalry, field and heavy horse artillery, 2R1 days, and for the coast artillery, garrison gar-rison and engineers, 295 days. The peace strength in 1915 was given as 22.500 in. the volunteer enlistment branch and lis, 5on conscripts. The total military enrollmen in Sweden is -($5,000, from a total population ot 5,500,000. residing in an area about equal to the combined areas of Colorado and Oklahoma. Sweden's naval strength is not particularly particu-larly formidable. Of its sixteen principal warships, some of which date as far back as thirty years ago, only three have displacement dis-placement of as much as 7100 tons. These three are thoroughly modern, however, the Sverige's keel being laid clown in 1912, while the Gustav V and Drottning Wic-toria. Wic-toria. were begun in 1915. All three of these vessels are armed with four eleven-inch eleven-inch guns and eight -six-inch rifles. The auxiliary Swedish warships include eight destroyers, five torpedo gunboats of ancient lineage, thirty-three torpedo boats and fourteen submarines. The active naval personnel is about 5000 officers and men. The relay coast artillery is a brancli of Sweden's military service, numbering 1600 officers and men. Commercial Appeal. |