Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1900 — ARMY MOBILIZATION. [ARTICLE]

ARMY MOBILIZATION.

How Railway Frojresj His Simplified Oae Military Problem. In 1870. from July 24 to August 4, a period of 11 days, Germany was able to convey in 1.520 railroad trains 19.299 utEcers, 556,000 soldiers, 101,881 horses and 16,883 cannon and baggage wagons to the seat of war. So great has been the progress made by Germany during the intervening 30’ years that she could at the present time transport the same number of men and the same quantity of war material to the sccneof action in from two to four days, which shows the enormous strategical importance of the railway. A great French military authority considers that by means of seven double-track railway lines, 1.440,000 men could be transported to the frontiers of Germany in 24 hours, and in 207 trains on each of the seven lines. 'Phis would be a total of 1,449 trains. Germany is not far behind France in this ability to mobilize troops,and 1,440 trains bearing 1.440,000 men can be dispatched from Berlin within 24 hours to any district of the empire, so that the two> great neighboring powers could mobilize great armies and begin war simultaneously with its declaration.