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xxx Officers Rank and File Horses

Infantry, 52 regiments of 3 battalions, 156 battalions = 4,160 143,000 52

Cavalry, 17 regiments of 3 squadrons, 51 squadrons = 400 9,300 9,000

Field and Mountain Artillery, 19 regiments of 6 batteries, total 114 batteries of 6 guns = 684 guns = 800 12,500 8,800

Fortress Artillery, 20 battalions = 530 10,300 70

Engineers

13 Sapper battalions = 270 7,000 215

1 Railway battalion = 20 550 15

Transport, 13 battalions = 220 7,740 40,000

The Reserves comprise 52 battalions of Infantry, 17 squadrons, 26 Engineer and Transport companies, and 19 batteries with 114 guns, yielding a total of 1000 officers, 34,600 rank and file, and 9000 horses. Therefore, on mobilisation, the grand effective strength of the Army available for service beyond the seas would amount to 7,400 officers, 224,990 rank and file, 798 guns, and 67,152 horses. Behind this, there is the Territorial Army, comprising 386 Infantry battalions, 99 squadrons, 26 Engineer and Transport companies, and about 70 batteries, or 11,735 officers, 348,100 men, 11 16 guns, and 86,460 horses.

The Infantry and Engineers of the Regular Army have been recently re-armed with the Meidji magazine rifle. The following particulars show that the Japanese small arm is a superior weapon to the Russian, which dates from 1891: