litary mobilization that
the world has ever seen.

As mobilization finally results in army corps, and is designed to
fit into a frame, the component parts of an army corps may be set
forth to show the way in which all the various units have to be
drawn together to their places on a battle front. A complete army
corps of the German scheme consists of 56,000 combatants and 12,000
men in the supply train. Of this, 63.81 per cent are infantry, 11.56
per cent cavalry, 10.99 field artillery, 4.21 per cent light
artillery, 4.21 engineer corps, etc., hospital corps 1.04, and
miscellaneous 2.02 per cent. There are 4 brigades with 24
battalions, there are 24 batteries of field artillery with 144 guns,
there are 8 squadrons of cavalry, 4 howitzer batteries with 16 heavy
howitzers, a machine-gun section, a battalion of rifles, a battalion
of engineers, a telegraph section, a bridge train, 6 provision
columns, 7 wagon-park columns, a stretcher-bearer column, a horse
depot, a field bakery, 12 field hospitals, and 8 ammunition columns.

One has but to think of the various places from which these men and
stores must come, of the thousands of horses and hundreds of wagons;
of the millions of rounds of ammunition, speeding from different
points over different railroads, and when disembarked by roads, by
lanes, even by small bypaths to the appointed place on the battle
front, to realize what a marvelous feat is mobilization of a modern
army at the time of an outbreak of war.

An insight into the manner in which this can be carried out, and
incidentally, an insight into the preparedness of Germany for the
war, is seen in an analysis of the extraordinary and otherwise
inexplicable network of railways recently erected by Germany to tap
the frontiers of Belgium and Luxemburg.

"In the southwest corner of Prussia," says Walter Littlefield,
writing on this subject, "is a rectangular piece of territory, the
western and eastern sides of which are formed respectively by the
Belgian and Luxemburg frontiers and the River Rhine.... Five years
ago, this little corner of Prussia had about 15.10 miles of railway
to every hundred square miles of territory. At the opening of the
war this had increased to 28.30. In five years, without any apparent
industrial and commercial demand for it, this traction has been
increased to nearly twice its length. Villages of less than 1,300
inhabitants have been linked up with double-track lines. For
example, Pelm i