ACTIVE ARMY. RESERVE ARMY.

With In
the the Mobile Territorial Tot.
Categories. Colors. Reserve. Militia. Militia. Yrs.

First 2 6 4 7 19
Second -- 8 4 7 19
Third -- -- -- 19 19

In the above table the mobile militia corresponds to the German
Landwehr, and the territorial militia to the Landsturm.

After deducting emigrants, men put back for the following year, those
who are medically unfit, and one-year volunteers, the average number
of recruits placed each year in the first category is approximately
150,000, in the second category 36,000, and in the third category
28,000. All men in the first category are fully trained, while those
in the second category, who correspond to the German Ersatz Reserve,
are only partially trained, being called up at the discretion of the
War Minister for one or more periods of training not exceeding twelve
months altogether during their eight years' service.

Last year's returns, which were published in the Italian press, gave
the approximate war strength of the army as under:

Officers 41,692

Active army (with colors) 289,910

Reserve (including men of first
and second categories) 638,979

Mobile militia 299,596

Territorial militia 1,889,659
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Total war strength 3,159,836

According to a calculation, which need not be given in detail here,
the above number of total men available includes upward of 1,200,000
fully trained soldiers, who have been through the ranks, with perhaps
another 800,000 partially trained men of the second category, the
remaining million being completely untrained men, who have passed all
their nineteen years of obligatory service in the third category.

The organization for putting the above numbers of men into the field
is as follows: The fully trained men are organized in four armies,
each army consisting of three corps, one cavalry division, and a
number of troops for the lines of communication. The twelve corps are
recruited and organized on a territorial basis, each corps having its
allotted area, as shown in the sketch, which also in