CONDITION OF EUROPE. jo'j 



AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN . EMPIRE.* 



THE ARMY AND NAVY. 



. The Standing army of Austria-Hungary, including Bosnia and 

 Herzegovina, is formed on the Prussian system of universal liability 

 to arms, and is based on the Statutes passed in 1889, by which 

 military service is obligatory on all men on reaching their twenty- 

 first year, and at nineteen for the Landsturm. The term of service 

 is 10 years, 3 of which the soldier must spend in active service, . 

 after which he is enrolled for the remaining 7 years in the Army of 

 the Reserve, with the further liability to serve 3 years in the 

 Landwehr and 10 years in the Landsturm. In the Navy, the term 

 of service is 4 years in the Marines, 5 years in the Reserve, and 3 

 years in the Seewehr. 



The military forces of the whole Empire are divided into the 

 Standing Army, the Landwehr, and the Landsturm ; and the Navy 

 into the peace footing, and the Seewehr. 



Standing 

 Standing Army, and 

 Population, Army, Reserves, Navy, 



31st Dec, 1889. 1890. 1890. 1890. 



^--0 c^ ' o f Ironclads, Cruisers, 



41,076,804. 336,717- 1,813,413- 24 1 ^„d Monitors. 



Navy. f Frigates, Steamers, 



The " Seewehr." 104-^ Torpedo 



Men, 13,750 [ Boats, &c. 



OflScers, 811 



128 Total Fleet. 



14,561. 

 In case of war the number of men who could be obliged to serve 

 in the Landsturm is over 4,000,000. 



THE MILITARY AND NAVAL EXPENDITURE.t 



In accordance with the political constitution of the Austrian 

 Empire, which recognises three distinct Parliaments, there are three 

 distinct budgets ; the first, that of the Delegations for the whole 

 Empire ; the second, that of ihe Reichsrath for Austria ; and the 

 third, that of the Hungar ian Diet for the Kingdom of Hungary.^ : 



* The Compiler of these Facts and Figures is indebted to the following 

 authors :—" Almanach de Gotha (1871)," by Justus Perthes ; " Conditions of 

 Nations," by G. F. Kolb ; " Statesman's Year-Book (1891)," by J. Scott Keltie ; 

 " National Debts," by Robert Dudley Baxter. 



•]• Under the head of the Annual Expenditure of each nation is included the 

 Army and Navy, the Interest of the National Debt, and the Civil Expenditure. 



J Including Croatia and Sclavonia, there are four distinct budgets. 



