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AUSTRIA-H UNG ARY
The following sums were budgeted for on account of the Army in 1911 : CommonArmy,£14,760,178, extraordinary expenditure, £1,749,614; Austrian Landwehr, £2,639,156 ; Hungarian Honved, £2,643,822 ; military expendi- ture charged to Bosnia-Herzegovina, £268,026. Total, £22,060,797.
The weapon of the Austro-Hungarian infantry is the Mannlicher magazine rifle, model 95, calibre '315. The cavalry carry the Mannlicher carbine which takes th? same ammunition as the rifle.
The field gun fires a shrapnel of 14^ lb. The field howitzer batteries are armed with a 10 "5 cm. piece, weighing 10 cwt. and firing a 30-lb. shell. The mountain gun is the 7 cm. malleable bronze gun, weighing 257 lb., shell 10^ or lOf lb. ; a 10 cm. mountain howitzer is being introduced. All batteries have 4 guns in peace. In war, field guns and howitzer batteries, 6 guns, mountain batteries, 4.
The following table shows the peace establishments of the Common Army, the Austrian Landwehr, and the Hungarian Honvedseg, in 1912 : —
Officers
and Officials
Common Army — Staff and Establishments
6,420
Infantry : 102 regiments of 4 battalions, and 102 depot cadres
4 regiments of Tyrolese jagers of 4 battalions, and 4 depot cadres, and 26 independent jager battalions .
4 Bosnian-Herzegovinian regiments of 4 battalions, and 1 jager battalion
Total infantry
Cavalry : 42 regiments of 6 squadrons, and 42 depots . Field Artillery : 42 regiments of 4 batteries, and 42
reserve cadres
14 regiments of field howitzers of 4 batteries 8 divisions of horse artillery of 3 batteries . 3 regiments of mountain artillery of 5 batteries 2 regiments of mountain artilery of 10 batteries 1 regiment of mountain artillery of 11 batteries ■ 5 divisions of lieavy howitzers of 3 batteries, and 5
reserve cadres
Fortress Artillery : 6 regiments (14 battalions) and 7
independent battalions
Pioneers (engineers) : 15 battalions . . . . 1 railway and telegraph regiment of 12 companies,
and 1 cadre
Medical Corps
Train: 16 independent divisions, and 16 depot cadres
Total Common Army
Austrian Landwehr—
Infantry : 40 regiments
Cavalry : 6 regiments and 5 squadrons .... Artillery : 16 battei'ics
Total Austrian Landwehr Hungarian Honvi^ds^g — Infantry : 28 regiments and depot cadres Cavalry : 10 regiments and depot cadres
Total Hungarian Honv^ds^g .
Total Peace Establishment
10,806
1,239
441
12,486 2,049
- 2,339
544 525
136
106 517
25,172
4,415 379 162
4,956
3,721 469
4,190
34,318
All other ranks
13,202
158,194
16,130
6,785
181,109 43,915
31,413
8,149 8,506
1,591 3,039 5,202
296,120
37,454 3,946 1,964
43,364
24,063
4,517
28,580
368,070
Horses
1,005
2,395
242
42
2,679 40,909
16,724
27 15
4
3,895
65,268
1,737
3,155
923
5,815
599 4,872
5,471
76,544
