| Show ARMIES OF EUROPE an estimate in round numbers of the present military resources of the great powers of europe has been made it to Is particularly interesting at this time when the political storm clouds are assuming such threatening aspects it if the latest accounts fire reliable the powers are seemingly contemplating a division of turkey after all england it to Is understood has baa offered russia a large slice in exchange for egypt and austria is in making overtures to st petersburg looking to the mccu occupation potion of but bob such a division cannot be off effected toted without bloodshed for the last laet resource of the sultan will be the proclamation of the boly war aarand the of bis bin multitudes multitude around thes abe sacred green flag this means that every mohammedan capable of cirr currying ying aroas arms will rally and fight for victory or an in paradise Pa radiee it means that the property of tue whole nation Is to 0 o be laid on the altar of the so called sacred calev turkey cannot be disposed of except at a great cost the british army is the smallest of of the six powers usually called great but the naval looe is equal tot bose ot of any oll 0 the other three combi combine s army including whites in ID india consists of about made up as fonow cavalry artillery horo borst artillery engineers and infantry in cue of war the army could be raised to by royal proclamation england can at any moment embark infantry cavalry and guns to stay any bulut where her bar interests are thre ateneo italy maint alue a large larae army her frieDa friendship ship with austria sod germany necessitates this the understanding being that she Is to assist the two against russia sod and io in return receive protection against france if need bf be the peace looting footing of the cavalry Is but in a week it coo can be raised to every man in italy between IS 18 and 40 years ot of ago age is in liable to active service the infantry to is therefore in ti kieni of and in times of war the italian army la Is said tu to compare favorably with abe frenel franice has bas a peace army numbering about halt balf a million and number can calm at chert notice be increased to nearly four mill millions jong in twenty four hours hour could put pug men into thin field tho th gam arman i an emperor probably oom corn maude mandi the floett army in europe the rho peace footing of the german army Is 1 probably a little lew less than that of france but the war footing Is higher it Is estimated at five millions mill ion austria effective war strength is ia a little over two millions a the emperor could to la a week mobilize on the eastern frontier men every austrian to is liable to service until he la Is sixty years year of age russia a standing at andin army Is ia the largest large in the world it numbers in times of peace and in daae of war the european provinces alone would raise it to f ur million and in case of an emergency one million more coull be added turkey has bai a peace army of about and it is estimated that this number could be raised to the however by proclaiming a holy wr war 00 would rally a large portion of the mohammedan population in his bin empire including that of egypt and all d tunis lt it would take time to concentrate cen oen the forces erceg at the points point of danger but eventually be would have a vast multitude in the field |
