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GERMANY. 



The following towns of Germany had, ac- 

 cording to the census of 1871, a population of 

 more than 20,000 inhabitants (those marked 

 t being non-Prussian) : 



Towns. Inhabitants. 



Berlin 825,389 



tHamburg 240,251 



Breslau 208,025 



tDresden 177,089 



tMnnich... 



Cologne 



Magdeburg 1 84,452 



"Teustaf 



burg 

 Buckau 



Konigsberg 112,123 



tLeipsic 106,925 



Hanover 104,248 



tStuttgart 91,623 



Frankfort-on-the- I nn Q00 



Main f 90 ' 922 



Dantzic 89,121 



tStrasbourg 85,529 



tBremen 82,950 



tNuremberg 82,929 



Stettin 76,149 



Barmen ) 74,496 



Elberfeld f 71,394 



Aix-la-Chapelle 74,328 



Altona 74,131 



Duesseldorf . . 

 tChemnitz . 



tBrunswick ......... 57,782 



Crefeld ............. 57,128 



tMayence .......... 53,918 



Posen 



tMuhlhausen 



Halle 



52.825 



Essen ............... 51,526 



tMetz ............... 51,388 



t Augsburg 



51,284 



Cassel .............. 46,365 



Dortmund .......... 44,454 



Potsdam ............ 43.784 



Erfurt .............. 43,616 



Frankfort-on-the- I AOMi 



Oder ........... ) 43 < 211 



GOrlitz .............. 42,223 



tWiirzburg 



Towns. Inhabitants. 



tLubeck 



tMannheim 



tDarmstadt ........ 39,584 



tCarlsruhe 



Wiesbaden 



Coblentz 



Kiel ................ 31,747 



Elbing .............. 31,162 



tKostock ........... 30,980 



Dnisburg ........... 30,520 



tRatiebon .......... 29,224 



Bromberg .......... 27,734 



tZwickau 



27,322 



24,569 



tSchwerin 26,807 



Stralsund 26,731 



Gladbach 26,326 



tUlm 26,290 



Bonn 26,020 



Brandenburg 25,828 



tBamberg 25,748 



Halberstadt 25,421 



Miinster 24,816 



tFreiburg " 



tFfirth 



tPlauen 



Osnabriick 23,306 



Liegnitz 23,124 



tColmar 23,045 



tOffenbach 



tGlauchau 



Remscheid 22,017 



Bielefeld 21,803 



tFreiberg 21,673 



Guben 21,423 



Trier 21,421 



Flensburg 21,325 



Nordhausen 21,273 



Bochum 21.193 



Hildesheim 20,804 



tGotha 20,591 



Hanau 20,278 



tHeidvilberg 19,988 



tAltenburg. . . . 



By the Constitution of April 16, 1871, the 

 Prussian obligation to serve in the army is 

 extended to the whole empire. Every German 

 is liable to service, and no substitution allowed, 

 all capable of bearing arms having to serve in 

 the standing army for seven years, three in active 

 service, and four in the army of reserve. After 

 quitting the army of reserve, he forms part of 

 the landwehr for five years. The strength of 

 the Imperial German Army, in 1872, was : 



The navy of the German Empire was, 

 January, 1872, as follows : 



