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Whatever other horses way be needed in mobilisation are procured
by requisition.
Strength. The annual number of recruits to the army,
including Tromsø diocese, is about 11,000 (76 per cent of those
examined are fit for service in the line). With the annual
supply in the 5 southern brigade districts, and after calculating the
natural retirements subsequently, the present organised corps
commands will be able to be raised with full force and sufficient
reserves in all the opbuds, without including the recruiting-year class.
(When the landstorm opbud, in 1902, has all its year-classes, it
will take its reserves from the landstorm reinforcements). Norway
will thus be able to raise systematically by a mobilisation:
1. A line army of about 26,000 men that according to law can
be employed abroad;
2. A militia army of more than 25,000 men — the landvern;
together a field force of 51,000 men, about 2.5 per cent of
the population;
3. A second ban of the militia, the landstorm, 25,000, chiefly for
local defence;
4. Coast artillery, 4500;
Altogether about 80,000 men to defend their own land.
Of regular officers there are at present about 800, and about
700 «conscripted». The number of the latter will gradually be
increased considerably. Non-commissioned officers (regularly
appointed) number about 2200 and those serving as «vernepligtige»
1600 (the number of the conscripted non-commissioned officers
will, however, gradually be more than doubled).
An amount is voted annually for the mobilisation of different
troops, in order to test their readiness for war.
Higher military units than the brigade have not yet been
raised in time of peace. A major-general has the command in each
of the 5 brigade districts.
Besides the regular army, it is intended to utilise the volunteer
rifle corps for the defence of the country. These number about
30.000 members, of whom about 20,000 are not on the army-list.
The rifle corps members possess about 15,000 rifles of the army
pattern. In case of war, the volunteer riflemen will probably,
according to a motion put forward, be provided with uniform
marks, and be placed under the command of the army. Of late
years, the rifle corps have received a grant from the state for
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