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Infantry :-

1st field battalion (one-third), Willem I.

(Note. In stating the garrisons, where there are two detachments, they will be called one-half; three, one-third; four, one-fourth; although the Returns do not give the exact strength of each.)

6th field battalion (one-half), Banjoe-Biroe.

Depôt Battalion of the 1st Military Division, Willem I.

Artillery :-

(Note-The numbers run consecutively through all classes of batteries or companies.)

2nd company, Field, Banjoe-Biroe.

10th 21st

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15th Cavalry.--Nil.

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Engineers :--

Willem I.

Banjoe-Biroe.

Fortress, Willem I.

1st company, Willem I.

2nd

(one-half), Willem I.

The remainder of Engineers (one-half No. 2) in Atchin.

The Staff of the Field and Mountain Artillery is at Willem I and Batavia.

Fortifications of the Second Class.

1. Fort Prins Frederk, at Batavia.

2. Fort Prins Van Oranje, at Samarang (of which more under that port).

3. Fort General Cochius, at Gombong. Is situated about 40 miles from Tjilatjap, on the main road which leads, in one direction, to Samarang and the north, and, in the other, to Soerabaia and the east. It was originally intended to form part of the general scheme of defence of the south coast and Tjilatjap, in connection with the central highlands and north-coast ports.

It was, however, never finished, and has been for many years used as a military school, and now belongs to no class of fortifications. A good deal of work, notwithstanding, appears to have been done before its first purpose was abandoned, and a consideration of the value of what remains of the old fortifications, combined with the military buildings and barracks at the school, cannot be ignored should an advance be made from Tjilatjap, along the main road to Poerwoeredjo.

At present there is no garrison except the staff and instructors (say 50) of the school, and the pupils (about 600), who are chiefly half-castes.

4. The Fort General Van der Bosch at Ngawi. This fortress continued for many years to rank as a second-class fortress, but, by an Order of July 1879, it is reduced to the fourth class. We have no details of its present trace and armament, but the following facts are known. It is situated at the junction of the Solo and Madioen Rivers, by both of which there is at certain times of the year con- siderable boat-traffic. It is also on the main road to Soerabaia, and at the junction of several minor roads with it; the railway in course of construction from Soerabaia to Soerakarta, which has already got as far as Njandjoek, will pass through Ngawi. It has been proposed to make a canal from Tjilatjap to Soerabaia, but without this Ngawi is an important centre.

Ngawi is probably not more than 50 to 60 metres above the sea, as this portion of Java is flat, but its actual position is defective. In order to command both the rivers on which it stands, it has been placed too close to the fork, with the result that, although protected on three sides by streams, it is brought too close under the command of the opposite heights.

Ngawi is about 80 kilom. distant from Soerakarta railway-station, by a good road, traversed by cars in ten hours.

Garrison:-

Infantry: the punishment detachment of native troops. Artillery: No. 7 company, one-fourth.

Establishments:-

One of the Government powder-mills.

Hill Stations and Camps.

Before touching on the third-class fortifications, it secms advisable to say something of the hill- stations which have been established for the purpose of placing troops, as far as possible, in a healthy climate, and at the same time within easy reach of important naval stations and strategic points.

Of late years very considerable sums have been spent on the formation of the following camps :----- Kedonkebo, near Poerworedjo, eastward of Gombong, on the main road from Tjilatjap. It was formerly a fourth-class fortification, but has long been disclassed.

Garrison:-

Infantry: the 8th field battalion.

Establishments :-

The pyrotechnic workshops.

During the five years 1874-78, 15,000l. was spent on the workshops, and about 1,5007. a-year has been spent on the camp completed this year (1882).

Poerworedjo is about 42 miles from Djokokarta station.

(Note.--Some of the distances are given in miles and some in kilometres. This is intentional. The Java palen" are nearly equivalent to English miles, but many of the distances in the originals are given in kilometres.)

Appendix No. 9.

NETHERLANDS.

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