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JAPAN'S MILITARY RESOURCES. | the column which forced its way into Man-

In view of the expectation of immediate war it may be of interest to supplement some general remarks on the Japanese Army, which we hare quoted recently from various sources, by some detailed 8gures. The present constitution of the Japanese Army dates from 1878, und the Military Forces consist of (1) the permanent or Regular Army, with its Resives and Rs. erulting Reserves; (2) the Territorial Army; (3) the National Militis; and (2) the Militia of the Islands of Hokkaido, Tsushima, Goto, the Lia-Kia, &o. Military service is obligatory in the case of every able-bodied males from the ago of seventeen to forty years of age. Of this period, three years are passed in the permanent or Regular Army, Font years and four mouths in the Regular Reserves, five years in the Ter ritorial Artoy, and the remaining ability in the National Militia. The permanent Army, with its Resorvas, conducts operations abroad, and the Territorial Army and the Militia are for home defence. The up-to-date strength of the permanent Army, on a war footing, which does not include the Reserves, is as follows :---

Officers File.

Hank Horses

...

=4,160143,000

Infantry, 52 regiments of 3 battalions, 158 batta. lious Cavalry, 17 regiments of 3

squadrons, 51 squadrons 400 9,300 9,000 Field and Mountain Artil lery, 19. regiments of Patterice, total 114 batte ries of 6 guns 081 guna Fortress Artillery, 20

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Engineers, 13 Sapper

battalions

Engineers, 1 railway bat-

talion

t, 13 battalions

Transport, 13

800 12,500 8,500

530 10,300

70

270 7,000

20 550

215

15

30 7.740.40,000

Total = 694 guns, 6,400 officers, 19.1,390 rank and file, 58,152 horeca.

The Reserves comprise 52 battalions of Infantry, 17 squadrons, 26 Engineer and Transport Companies, and 19 batteries with 114 In the presence of H.E. the Administrator and gaus, yielding a total of 1,000 officors, 34,600 roak and ille, and 1,000 hores. Therefore, in the Elite of Hongkong.

mobilisation, the grand effective strength of the Army available for service beyond the seas would monut to 7,490 officers, 224,990 rank and | file, 798 gour, and 69,152 horese, 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, 343,100 men. 1,116 guas, and 86,480) horses.

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