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Title: The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931, ed
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, Sully and Kleinteich
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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gerian tirailleurs, 5 Africanlight infantry, and 1 Saharan tirailleur. The fighting strength ofthe army, exclusive of Algiers and Tunis, was 490,000 men, with 42coast batteries, 47 fortress batteries, 14 mountain batteries, 15 horsebatteries, 619 field batteries, and 21 field howitzer batteries. Theaeronautical corjjs is organized in three territorial grou^is. Thereare 27 sections of 8 aeroplanes, 10 cavalry sections of 3 aeroplaneseach, and 11 fortress sections of 8 aeroplanes each, represent-ing a total of 334 aeroplanes. The aeronautical corps also owns14 dirigibles. The gendarmerie is a force of military jjolice recniited 270 COUNTRIES INVOLVED from the army but performing civil duties in time of peace. Theirstrength is about 21,700 men. The Garde Republicaine, anotherpolice force, performs duties in Paris similar to those of the gen-darmerie in the departments. Its strength is about 3,000, of whomabout 800 are mounted. In 1913 there was a great development of the Boy Scouts. They
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A Battery of Frances Wonderful Field Artillery are recruited from all members of society and participate in the re-unions and exercises organized bj the Comite Central. The military law of 1913 made the length of service three yearsin the active army; eleven years in the reserve; seven j^ears in theterritorial army; and seven years in the reserve of the territorialarmy. The peace strength of the metropolitan ai-my comprises 25,695officers, 483,768 men; the colonial army (in France), 1,891 officersand 25,672 men. The gendarmerie. Garde Republicaine, etc., bring FRANCE 271 the force up to 673 officers and 25,672 men. Algeria and Tunis fur-nish 2837 officers and 69,191 men. The colonial army, distinct from the metropolitan, consists ofboth white and native troojis. The colonial troops at home consist of12 regiments of infantiy and 3 regiments of artillery. The troops inthe colonies consist of three battalions of the Foreign Legion; 13battalions and 4 companies of colonial infantry, 32 ba

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