p. 144 | War Preparations

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 29, 1875

War Preparations.

EVEN the most superficial observer can scarcely fail to notice the very extensive preparations being made on the part of the five great powers for the coming European conflict, which sooner or later is bound to come. France has about completed the re-organization of her army, increasing the rank and file, and is manufacturing artillery and fire-arms with unparalleled rapidity. Germany too is giving its army every attention, and Krupp’s foundry is at work night and day turning out the famous steel guns which did such effective service during the late war. So complete is the organization of the army that it is claimed by a German paper that at a given moment the number of German troops, which hitherto has numbered at the most only 1,329,600 men, may be brought up to 1,600,000 men, in consequence of the formation of a fourth battalion in case of mobilization or war. The same paper states that the French army, which numbers only 1,089,400 men, may eventually be raised to the same number as the German army, by drafting into it the whole newly-created territorial army.—Christian at Work.