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Show COMPARATIVE STRENGTH OF BALKAN FORCES With Turkey In the war on the side of Germnny. there is a possibility that Roumania, Bulgaria, Greece and Italy will be drawn into the mighty conflict The comparative strength of these nations is hero gnon: Turkey has an army of Ihlrieen corps, 800,000 men. 400.000 reservists; sixty-four regiments of cavalry; ar Ullery (estimated since Balkan wan. I forty batteries Hour guns eachi. Krnpp and Bchnelder (French) quick' firing mountain guh8 ustria is now j filling s large additional order. Her navy Is made up of two dreadnoughts, four hattlrships, four crullers (Including (Includ-ing the Cocben nnd Breslau, recently obtained from Germany ), three toi-pedo toi-pedo gunboats, ten defltroyers. twen t;. -eight small c'inboats, one coast defender. de-fender. Tho battleships, two pur-chased pur-chased from Germany, two from Brazil, Bra-zil, are old, with nn guns larger than 11 Inches A third dreadnought be-in be-in built at Newcastle, The Faith Is. of course, sacrificed. Six vice ad-mi ad-mi rain, cloven rear admirals, 208 captains, cap-tains, 289 commanders, 22S lieutenants, lieuten-ants, 1S7 ensigns, 30,000 sailors, 9,000 marines. Roumania has an army of five corps; two cavalry divisions, 290,000 men; artillery, twenty regiments of field artillery of six batteries follf guns each); li-- bdwltser divisions; three horse artillery batteries: twenty twen-ty -two companies of fortress artillery; retietVeA, forty battalions, nine batteries bat-teries Her navy Is made up of one projected cruiser, seven gunboats, six i coast guard vessels two second-class torpedo boats, one composite brig training ship, twelve baVftl police boats, four river monitors. Greece has an arm of six corps 1,952 officers: of 23,268 men. three CaVSiry regiments three heavy hat-teries hat-teries l orl J -two Held and mountain batteries, reserves, four divisions. 10,-000 10,-000 men (the Statesman's Year nook calls attention to plans of enlargement enlarge-ment made under way due to acquisition acquisi-tion of new terrltorv in tho Balkan war) (y navy is two battleships, three cruisers, fourteen destroyers, seven modern torpedo boats, two BUb- I marines, five reconstructed old WSr I vessels. Bulgaria has an army of fourteen divisions. n,!0u officers, 280,000 men; thirty-three batterlei of four gmis each, Krupp and Schneider 7,5 cehti-met cehti-met res Italy has an armv of twelve corps and Independent cavalry; officers, 10.172; men, 400,000, reservists. t ; thirty aerial squadrons of seven aeroplanes each; artillery, 203 bat tenes. lio companies. Her navy haa four dreadnoughts, eight pre-dread-noughts, nine armored cruisers, thirteen thir-teen protected cruisers, ten torpedo gunboats. thirty HVe destroyerrs, eighty-Six torpedo boats, twenty-five submarines. TAMMANY HALL IS IN CONTROL. That Tamnlany Hall, with its 20 congressmen, virtually will control the lower house of the next congress, Is one of the surprising disclosures of the election returns The Democrats have a majority of 24 In the House of Representatives, but with Tammany's Tam-many's 20 votes against them, they are in a minority. Latest returns place the strength of flic parties at 229 Democrats, 196 Republicans. Re-publicans. 7 Progressives 1 Socialist and 1 Independent message from Washington says the balance of power is in the hands of Tammany members, and they are bitterlv hostile to Wilson. He has ignored (hem entirely in the matter of federal patronage, and their oppor- iuiihj iui i ejfi isms iiid uume in mt-next mt-next congress They refused to follow fol-low him in the Panama canal tolls ; repeal contest, and have been unruly on all other propositions he favored There is one feature of the election I which is slightly disconcerting from a Republican point of view and that ' is the hold which the Democrats re- i tain on the United States senate. With returns from Colorado: Nevada ; and Wisconsin indicating the election i I Democratic senators in all throe I states, the senate promises to be made up of 54 Demorrats Tft Republicans Republi-cans and 1 Progressive, which gives , the Democrats a majority of 14 Two years from now 31 senators go out of office, and a big fraction of them are I from the Southern states, assuring I the re-election of that many Demo- I crats. so that It will be almost Impossible Im-possible to overcome the present lead prior to the elections of 1918, and the i results at that time, even though favorable fa-vorable to the Republicans, will not , become effective until 1019. STANDARD TAKEN TO TASK. The Vita Issues." published IB New York City, writes The Standard, complaining that this paper, in an editorial on October 28. unfalrlv commented com-mented on the conduct of the German iroops in Belgium The Standard quoted irorn letters received by not less than four Ogden ites from relatives in Europe, relat ing personal knowledge of atroclriee perpetrated by the Kaiser's soldier in northern Belgium, particularly at and near Louvain, and we said that the brutalities were a shock to the American people Our information we confess, may bo wrong, but our conclusions based on that information are absolutely justifiable. The Standard alms to be fair and free from bias and stands ready tu (direct any mis-statement or mis judgment; furthermore, this paper Is jis free to denounce barbarous con duct b the allies an to censure the Germans for their shortcomings We have looked on the work or the iron-hand of German officers in northern Belgium at the beginning of the war as intended to oversfwe. terrorize and cow the Belgians, and j have a moral effect on the French and British troops and to have been fkdiberately planned and executed for that purpose. Since then the con duet of the German troops seems to have been above reproach, except the wanton destruction of property during dur-ing the first stages of the war. It Is just possible that, had ihe PTench and British invaded Germany, they would have resorted to the same ruthless tactics as a military necessity. neces-sity. But the non military world recoils before such distressing, horrible offenses. of-fenses. Tho German people as a whole are held blameless for these military bar I barlsms, as they are known to be among the very best people on earth, kind, considerate, lovable. " ItaJ Issue," we take it, is a me-: me-: dlum through which a pro-German propaganda is being vigorously prosecuted prose-cuted in order to win over the Amer-j Amer-j ican people. The love of the father-1 father-1 land Is strong In the German popu-j popu-j latioii and, right or wrong, tho Germans Ger-mans in Ain.-rira are upholding their country. They flre doing nothing more than Americans In distant lands I would do. If this nation were Involved In-volved in war with nnv other power on earth love of country is an ennobling en-nobling trait, although it often blinds us to our country's misdeeds. |
