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for 8 years to the Landstorm. The initial period of training is 225 days for the infantry. It is 285 days for cavalry, horse and field artillery, and heavy field artillery, and 295 days for garrison artillery and engineers. The infantry is called up for exercise 4 times, 3 in the first period of their service, for 30 days each time, and once later for 15 days. The cavalry and artillery have 3 trainings, 2 of 42 days and 1 of 25 days. The garrison artillery and garrison engineers have two trainings of 35 days and one of 15 days, other engineers have two trainings of 35 days and one of 25 days.

The field army is likely to consist, in the first instance, of 6 divisions, each of 2 brigades of 2 regiments (12 battalions and 4 machine gun com- panies), with a regiment of cavalry (4 squadrons and 1 machine gun section), a regiment of field artillery (11 batteries of 4 guns each),

1 or 2 companies of engineers, a pontoon train, a telegraph detachment, 1 or

2 field searchlight sections, a supply company, a bearer company, ammunition column and train. There would be also a cavalry division of 4 regiments ami the horse artillery division (16 squadrons and 3 batteries). The total would amount to about 100,000 combatants. The first 'uppbad' of the Bevaring would be able (as far as numbers go) to furnish a nearly equal number of reserve troops, while the second 'uppbad' would provide a suffi- cient reserve to make good the losses on field service, but it is not known at present what is to be the organisation of the considerable reserves which will be available.

The table below shows the peace establishment in 1920 : —

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Rank and File

Troops

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Conscripts (Contingent

on tin Repeti- tion exercise,

E O

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5 O

= 9 IE

Total

Army-Staff, Ac. .....

Infantry, 23 regiments (85 battalions)

Cavalry, 8 regiments (50 squadrons)

Field Artillery, 6 regiments and 1 corps (70 batteries) and 2 Horse Artillery batteries .....

Heavy Artillery, 1 regiment and 1 bat- tery (7 batteries) ....

Garrison Artillery, 1 regiment and 1 corps (12 companies) ....

Engineers, 5 corps (35 companies).

Train and Medical Service. 6 corps and 1 company (Id companies)

Intendance (4 companies).

74 1,488

M

I 461

173

81 114



1.094

153

399

140

86 91

6,446

S36

372

M

55,000 2,500

5,700

1,800

3,100 600

76

64.02S

5,894

9,086

2,949

3,639 835

Total Peace establishment

2,655

1.965

13,187

68,700

so.'o:

The total number of horses is about 11,000.

The total numbers on the rolls amount to about 633,000.

The strength of the reserve of officers and voluntarily enlisted men amounts to about 33,000, that of the Bevaring to about 400,000.

The Landstorm amounts to about 190,000 of all ranks.

The Swedish infantry are armed with the Mauser ride (calibre 6 - 5 mm.) ; the horse and field artillery have the Krupp 7 5 cm. Q.F. gun. The military budget for 1920 amounted to 134,023,700 kronor" for the army,