649 
EXTRACTS 
FROM THE 
“ORGAN DER MILITARAnSSENTSCHAETLICHENWEREINE/’ 
Parts 5, Yol. XXI., and 1, Yol. XXII., 
TRANSLATED BY 
LIEUT. J. M. GRIERSON, R.A. 
The four most important articles in these two numbers of the 
“ Organ ” are the “ Armed strength of Russia, Part 2,” by Captain 
Opacic ; the “ Medical Service in the German Army,” by Dr. Bock ; 
ee The Russo-Turkish War (hitherto unpublished documents)and a 
most interesting lecture by Captain Medycki, 9th Regiment, on the 
“ Tactical Lessons of the War of 1877-8.” 
In the first of these is described the organization of the Russian 
reserve troops. In the infantry there exist in peace 1 guard and 
96 line reserve cadre battalions, the former of 4, the latter each of 
5 companies. On mobilization, the guard battalion is expanded into a 
guard reserve regiment of 4 battalions. Each company of the line 
battalions is expanded into a battalion; the first four form a reserve 
regiment of infantry, the fifth a new reserve battalion. The total 
number of the battalions thus formed is 484. The reserve infantry 
regiments are numbered consecutively from 165 to 260, and grouped 
by fours into the 42nd to 65th Infantry Divisions, i,e. } consecutively 
after the series of regular infantry divisions. The necessary men are 
obtained by calling in the reserves, and, if those are insufficient, the 
1st category of the militia. The newly formed “ reserve battalions” 
do garrison duty in the interior, while the 42nd to 65th Divisions are 
destined to support or re-inforce the field army. The Russian army 
has 192 regiments of infantry (including guards and grenadiers), and 
7 brigades of rifles, and for those in war 199 depot battalions are 
formed, 164 by 82 of the reserve battalions, which each form 2 depot 
battalions for the line infantry; the guards, grenadiers, and rifles 
forming their own depots. Each company of the above 82 reserve 
