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Since Von Bremen wrote, how- have been several interesting developments. In February it became known that of the French soldiers ever, there no less than 265,000 had died, were on the sick-list, or had been discharged during the previous month. The explanation is, that in order to raise the figures even had been accepted, that old unhealthy barracks were overcrowded and that new ones had been occupied while the plaster was still wet on the the poorest kind of material army was short of walls; that the of many hundreds.

Official estimates place the strength of the critic army at 390,250 men, but a German or repoints out that of these 60,000 are Landwelir, Rear Guard in Ambush Artillery Patrol THE ARMY and ought not serves, 31 to be counted. There is to be a yearly increase of 31,300 recruits, but the measure to take full effect until 1918. For is not the navy, 427,000,000 kronen are appropriated, of which 4,000,000 are to go for military air-ships; but the expenditures are to be extended over a period of tria's fate five years.

Politik) may be worth giving the exact strength of the German army on October 1913: Total 790,788 and 157,816 horses. Of these: officers, 30,253; sanitary officers, 2,483; veterinaries, 865; non-commissioned officers, 104,377; common soldiers, 647,811. (Infantry, 515,216; cavalry, 85,593; field artillery, 126,042; sappers and miners, 24,010 ; communication troops, 18,949 ; army service, 1 1,592. ) 1, of the German army has been enormousmore than twenty-five billion marks between 1872 and The cost 1910, and in 1913 alone, 1,608,653,300 marks.