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SPAIN

The estimates for 1913 are as follows, meet expenditure for action in Morocco.

The expenditure was increased to

Revenue

Expenditure

Pesetas

Pesetas

Direct taxes on land, trade,

Civil list ....

8,750,000

mines, Government salaries

Cortes

2,486,000

registration, &g.

481,365,468

Public debt.

. 410,514,845

Indirect taxes, customs.

Pensions ....

78,200,000

excise, &c

415,100,000

President of Council

808,079

Tobacco monopoly, lottery.

Ministry of State

6,114,537

mint, and minor sundries .

215,838,000

,, Justice' .

19,512,052

National property :

,, Worship

41,016,953

Revenue ....

22,899,254

„ War . .

. 159,788,979

Sales

1,339,000

„ Marine .

70,672,712

Public treasury ....

28,762,750

„ Interior .

79,309,477

,, Instruction .

62,711,373

,, Public Works,

&c. 90,840,379

,, Finance

17,964,325

Tax collecting .

. 40,760,245

Spanish possessions in Gulf

of Guinea

1,900,000

Action in Morocco .

Total . . .

51,386,905

Total ....

1,165,304,472

. 1,142,736,861

The National Debt of Spain on January 1, 1913 (last official figures available) amounted to 9,399,440,855 pesetas, composed as follows : —

External Debt : —

4 per cent, perpetual exterior debt — sealed bonds Internal Debt : —

4 per cent, perpetual internal debt

5 4)er cent, redeemable debt .... 4 per cent, redeemable debt (1908) Non-interest bearing debt due to officials . ' Pagares ' of the Ministry of the Colonies

Pesetas. 1,028,300,200

6,524,380,364 1,590,427.500

155,332,500 1,000,291

100,000,000

Defence.

Army.

Military service in Spain is compulsory (Law of June 29, 1911). The total term of service is for 18 years ; 3 are spent in the active army (generally reduced to 2), 3 are spent in the first reserve, 6 are spent in the second reserve, and the rest in the "territorial reserve." The second' reserve forms second line, or reserve troops on, mobilisation, and the men not required for these formations are available for supplying casualties on field service. There is at present no organisation for the "territorial reserve."

The country is divided up into 8 territorial districts, each under a ' Cajitain-General.' The 1st to 6th inclusive each furnish to the field army 2 divisions, the remaining two, 1 division. A division consists of 2 infantry brigades, each consisting of 2 regiments of 3 battalions, but the third battalion is only a cadre in peace time, 1 regiment of cavalry, 1 regiment of field artillery of 5 batteries, 1 regiment of engineers. There are also 3 independent brigades of chasseurs, each of 6 battalions, 4 regiments of mountain artillery, making 14 batteries, and 1 regiment of horse artillery

of 5 batteries. Batteries have 4 guns. There is 1 permanent cavalry