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AUSTRIA-H UNG ARY

The following sums were budgeted for on account of the Army in 1911 : CommonArmy,£14,760,178, extraordinary expenditure, £1,749,614; Austrian Landwehr, £2,639,156 ; Hungarian Honved, £2,643,822 ; military expendi- ture charged to Bosnia-Herzegovina, £268,026. Total, £22,060,797.

The weapon of the Austro-Hungarian infantry is the Mannlicher magazine rifle, model 95, calibre '315. The cavalry carry the Mannlicher carbine which takes th? same ammunition as the rifle.

The field gun fires a shrapnel of 14^ lb. The field howitzer batteries are armed with a 10 "5 cm. piece, weighing 10 cwt. and firing a 30-lb. shell. The mountain gun is the 7 cm. malleable bronze gun, weighing 257 lb., shell 10^ or lOf lb. ; a 10 cm. mountain howitzer is being introduced. All batteries have 4 guns in peace. In war, field guns and howitzer batteries, 6 guns, mountain batteries, 4.

The following table shows the peace establishments of the Common Army, the Austrian Landwehr, and the Hungarian Honvedseg, in 1912 : —

Officers

and Officials

Common Army — Staff and Establishments

6,420

Infantry : 102 regiments of 4 battalions, and 102 depot cadres

4 regiments of Tyrolese jagers of 4 battalions, and 4 depot cadres, and 26 independent jager battalions.

4 Bosnian-Herzegovinian regiments of 4 battalions, and 1 jager battalion

Total infantry

Cavalry : 42 regiments of 6 squadrons, and 42 depots. Field Artillery : 42 regiments of 4 batteries, and 42

reserve cadres

14 regiments of field howitzers of 4 batteries 8 divisions of horse artillery of 3 batteries. 3 regiments of mountain artillery of 5 batteries 2 regiments of mountain artilery of 10 batteries 1 regiment of mountain artillery of 11 batteries ■ 5 divisions of lieavy howitzers of 3 batteries, and 5

reserve cadres

Fortress Artillery : 6 regiments (14 battalions) and 7

independent battalions

Pioneers (engineers) : 15 battalions. . . . 1 railway and telegraph regiment of 12 companies,

and 1 cadre

Medical Corps

Train: 16 independent divisions, and 16 depot cadres

Total Common Army

Austrian Landwehr—

Infantry : 40 regiments

Cavalry : 6 regiments and 5 squadrons .... Artillery : 16 battei'ics

Total Austrian Landwehr Hungarian Honvi^ds^g — Infantry : 28 regiments and depot cadres Cavalry : 10 regiments and depot cadres

Total Hungarian Honv^ds^g.

Total Peace Establishment

10,806

1,239

441

12,486 2,049

- 2,339

544 525

136

106 517

25,172

4,415 379 162

4,956

3,721 469

4,190

34,318

All other ranks

13,202

158,194

16,130

6,785

181,109 43,915

31,413

8,149 8,506

1,591 3,039 5,202

296,120

37,454 3,946 1,964

43,364

24,063

4,517

28,580

368,070

Horses

1,005

2,395

242

42

2,679 40,909

16,724

27 15

4

3,895

65,268

1,737

3,155

923

5,815

599 4,872

5,471

76,544