Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1894 — Britain’s Big Army. [ARTICLE]

Britain’s Big Army.

London Court Journal. The physique of the British army may not, perhaps, be all that it ought to be, but so far as numbers are concerned our military forces are in a very satisfactory condition. In case of need we could put in the field for service at .home a force of 332,000 men, exclusive of the militia reserve. We have 94.000 militia. 10,000 yeomanry, ai.d nearly 228,000 volunteers. The regular army numbers close upon 220,000 of all ranks, and these could, on an emergency, be supplemented by 80,000 reserve men and 30,000 militia reservists, making in all a total of 330,000 men for service abroad. We have thus a grand total of 662,000 men available for service at home and abroad. At no time was there so large a force of enrolled men ready to be called upon for service should occasion require. Now and then you hear of a charitable coal dealer, but he is not likely to go very much out of his weigh to be so.