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GERMANY. 



The following table gives the military forces 

 of the empire in time of war : 



I. FIELD ARMY. 



II. RE3ERTES. 



III. GARRISON. 



The military forces of the empire in time of 

 peace are as follows : 



The ^Minister of War, in his annual report 

 for 1877, upon the results of the year's re- 

 cruiting, stated that, out of 140,197 recruits, 

 130,939 had received education in the German 

 and 6,283 in other languages, only 2,975 having 

 received no kind of education. Out of 86 670 

 recruits supplied by Prussia, 78,661 had been 



pupils at German schools, and 5,486 at schools 

 where other languages were used for teaching, 

 2,523 being altogether uneducated. The parts 

 of the empire from which the greater propor- 

 tion of the uneducated recruits came were the 

 eastern and northeastern regions (the province 

 of Prussia) and Alsace-Lorraine. 



The German navy was composed as follows 

 in 1878: 



The movements of shipping in the German 

 ports in 1876 were as follows : 



The commercial navy of Germany was com- 

 posed as follows in 1877: 



