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CHAPTER VII.
Military.
Organisation—Field Troops—Reserve Troops—Fortress
Troops—Railway Troops—Local Troops—Frontier
Guards—Combatant Strength—Distribution and
Garrisons—Other Military Establishments.
Organiza
tion.
The Turkistan Military District, which includes the
whole of the country dealt with in this report, has its
headquarters at Tashkend, where the Governor-General,*
who in addition to being the chief civil authority commands
the troops, has his official residence. He has a personal
staff and is assisted by the District Military Council,
which is composed of the Assistant to the Governor-
General (nominated by the War Minister) and the heads
of the first five departments of the District Staff. The
latter is composed as follows :—
]. The General Staff.
2. The District Intendance Department.
3 „ Artillery „
4. „ Engineer „
5. „ Medical „
6. ,, Topographical „
7. „ Military Law „
The troops quartered in the district, in common with
the rest of the Russian Army, are classified as field,
ieserve,| fortress, and local troops. Field troops are in
most cases permanently maintained at a strength not far
short of war strength, and are, with a few exceptions,
grouped in brigades of infantry, cavalry, or artillery,
and are organized as two army corps, in addition to
a garrison in Semirechia. Reserve troopsf are main-
* The present Governor-General, appointed in 1904, is Lieut.-
General Teviashov, formerly Chief of the Intendance, Member of
Council, &c., having previously served in the cavalry. He was
born in 1842.
f It should be noted that “ Reserve ” troops, though classed as
such, are being employed in first line in the present Avar in
Manchuria (1904).