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each year are two of fourteen days each for lieutenant colonels 

 of dismounted troops, including foot artillery; one of four- 

 teen days for 36 captains of cavalry, one of fourteen days for 

 commanders of infantry regiments, and four courses of five 

 weeks each for 60 captains and 30 first lieutenants of infantry. 



Practice courses for noncommissioned ofiicers of infantry 

 and cavalry are held at Spandau, Hagenau in Alsace, Gruppe, 

 near Graudenz on the Vistula, and Munster in Hanover; and 

 at Spandau (for the first time in 1900) a training course in 

 the use of machine-guns for officers and noncommissioned 

 officers of the rifle battalions. Infantry practice on a large 

 scale, not practicable in the limited space at Spandau, is held 

 at Tegel, north of Berlin, and, in connection with field artil- 

 lery, on the extensive firing grounds at Jiiterbog. 



The royal Bavarian military firing school is at the range 

 and drill grounds of Lechfeld, 16 miles south of Augsburg. 

 It is intended solely for Bavarian troops, and courses of 

 instructions are held annually for field officers, captains, and 

 lieutenants of infantry, and for officers and noncommissioned 

 officers of cavalry and foot artillery. 



The field-artillery firing school at Jiiterbog, in Branden- 

 burg, is under the supervision of the inspector of field artil- 

 lery. The school staff consists of 1 major general, 2 field 

 officers, and an aid. Four field officers and 12 captains are 

 detailed as instructors, and an instruction regiment is sta- 

 tioned there, made up of three detachments of three field 

 batteries each. Courses for senior officers, in classes of 12 

 field officers, 72 captains, and 46 first lieutenants, are held 

 yearly; two courses for lieutenants in classes of 100 each, and 

 four spring courses for furloughed officers, 35 in each class. 

 Bavarian, Wurttemberg, and Saxon field-artillery officers are 

 also detailed to these courses. 



The foot-artillery firing school is also located at Jiiterbog. 

 Its personnel consists of 1 field officer commanding, with a 

 lieutenant as aid, and 3 field officers and 2 captains as in- 

 structors. There is, in addition, an instruction battalion of 

 three companies. There are held here yearly two courses 

 for junior officers, one for officers of the furloughed class, 

 and two £or noncommissioned officers. 



Since 1899 there have been detailed for instruction to the 

 infantry firing school at Spandau from each army corps, one 

 division commander, who were originally in the cavalry or 



