regiments of Tyrolese Jaegers, and 4 regiments of
Bosnia-Herzegovina infantry. Every infantry regiment had four field
battalions and a depot battalion. The duty of the latter was to fill up
the ranks of the others. Each infantry regiment had at least two
machine-gun detachments of two guns each, and in many there were two
guns per battalion. In Bosnia and Herzegovina every battalion had four,
and this also was true of every Jaeger battalion.

The Austrian infantrymen, as they met their Russian antagonists, carried
a small-bore magazine rifle, in use in the army since 1895, and known
after its inventor as the Maennlicher. It had a caliber of .315 inch and
fired a pointed bullet. It was loaded by means of a charger which
contained five cartridges, and it was equipped with a bayonet. The
cavalry carbine was shorter but took the same bullet. One hundred and
twenty rounds were carried by the infantry soldier, and there were
forty rounds in the company ammunition wagon, and 160 in the infantry
ammunition columns, in addition. The machine gun in use was of the same
caliber and took the same ammunition as the infantry rifle. It was
composed of few parts, and was a simple and highly effective instrument.

On these first days of August, 1914, the cavalry of Austria--the
hussars, uhlans, and dragoons, but really all of one type--light
cavalry--was equipped uniformly with saber and carbine. The
noncommissioned officers and others who did not carry a carbine rode
forth equipped with an automatic pistol. There were forty-two cavalry
regiments in the entire Austrian army, consisting of six squadrons, each
of which had a fighting strength of 150 sabers, not counting the pioneer
troops. Every cavalry regiment had four machine guns with 40,000 rounds
of ammunition. The pioneer troops of the cavalry, which first were
introduced in Austria, were composed of an officer and twenty-five men,
equipped with tools and explosives needed by an advance force to clear
obstacles, destroy railways, etc. Besides the pioneer troops, eight men
in each squadron were equipped with similar tools. The telegraph
section, consisting of eight men, carried about seven miles of light
wire.

The artillery of Austria-Hungary had been greatly modified in recent
years. The gun used for horse and field batteries was known as M5--that
is, the pattern of 1905. It was of 3-inch caliber, a quick firer,
throwing a shrapnel shell which weighed 14.7 pounds. High-explosive