Table I.-COMPOSITION and Maximum Effectives of an Infantry Division Units. Maximum Effectives of each Unit. Officers. Men. Headquarters of an Infantry Division 3 Regiments of Infantry* (on the basis of 65 officers 1 Squadron 1 Battalion of Trench Artillery (3 companies) 1 Battalion of Pioneers† (3 companies) Regiment Field Artillery+ 1 Battalion Cyclists (comprising 3 companies) 1 Signal detachments Divisional Medical Corps * Each regiment comprises 3 battalions of infantry. Each battalion comprises 3 companies of infantry and 1 machine gun company. Each battalion comprises 1 headquarters, 2 pioneer companies, 1 bridging section, 1 searchlight section. Each regiment comprises 1 headquarters, 3 groups of field or mountain artillery, comprising 8 batteries; each battery comprising 4 guns or howitzers (field or mountain). §This detachment comprises: telephone detachment, 1 listening section, 1 carrier pigeon section. Table II.-COMPOSITION and Maximum Effectives for a Cavalry * Each regiment comprises 4 squadrons. † Each group comprises 9 fighting cars, each carrying 1 gun, 1 machine gun, and 1 spare machine gun, 4 communication cars, 2 small lorries for stores, 7 lorries, including 1 repair lorry, 4 motor cycles. NOTE -The large cavalry units may include a variable number of regiments and be divided into independent brigades within the limit of the effectives laid down above. Table III.-COMPOSITION and Maximum Effectives for a Mixed * Each regiment comprises 3 battalions of infantry. Each battalion comprises 3 companies of infantry and 1 machine gun company. Table IV.-MINIMUM Effectives of the Units whatever Organisation is adopted in the Army. (Divisions, Mixed Brigades, &c.). * Automatic rifles or carbines are counted as light machine guns. No heavy guns, i.e., of a calibre greater than 105 mm., is authorised, with the exception of the normal armament of fortified places. SECTION II. NAVAL CLAUSES. ARTICLE 136. From the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty all Austro-Hungarian warships, submarines included, are declared to be finally surrendered to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. All the monitors, torpedo boats and armed vessels of the Danube Flotilla will be surrendered to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. Austria will, however, have the right to maintain on the Danube for the use of the river police three patrol boats to be selected by the Commission referred to in Article 154 of the present Treaty. ARTICLE 137. The Austro-Hungarian auxiliary cruisers and fleet auxiliaries. enumerated below will be disarmed and treated as merchant ships: Gigante. Pluto. Buffel. President Wilson (ex-Kaiser Franz Joseph). ARTICLE 138. All warships, including submarines, now under construction in Austrian ports, or in ports which previously belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, shall be broken up. The work of breaking up these vessels will be commenced as as soon as possible after the coming into force of the present Treaty. ARTICLE 139. Articles, machinery and material arising from the breaking up of Austro-Hungarian warships of all kinds, whether surface vessels or submarines, may not be used except for purely industrial or commercial purposes. They may not be sold or disposed of to foreign countries. ARTICLE 140. The construction or acquisition of any submarine, even for commercial purposes, shall be forbidden in Austria. ARTICLE 141. All arms, ammunition and other naval war material, including mines and torpedoes, which belonged to Austria-Hungary at the date of the signature of the Armistice of November 3, 1918, are declared to be finally surrendered to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. ARTICLE 142. Austria is held responsible for the delivery (Articles 136 and 141), the disarmament (Article 137), the demolition (Article 138), as well as the disposal (Article 137) and the use (Article 139) of the objects mentioned in the preceding Articles only so far as these remain in her own territory. ARTICLE 143. During the three months following the coming into force of the present Treaty, the Austrian high-power wireless telegraphy station at Vienna shall not be used for the transmission of messages concerning naval, military or political questions of interest to Austria, or any State which has been allied to Austria-Hungary in the war, without the assent of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. This station may be used for commercial purposes, but only under the supervision of the said Powers, who will decide the wave-length to be used. During the same period Austria shall not build any more high-power wireless telegraphy stations in her own territory or that of Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria or Turkey. SECTION III. AIR CLAUSES. ARTICLE 144. The armed forces of Austria must not include any military or naval air forces. No dirigible shall be kept. ARTICLE 145. Within two months from the coming into force of the present Treaty, the personnel of the air forces on the rolls of the Austrian land and sea forces shall be demobilised. ARTICLE 146. Until the complete evacuation of Austrian territory by the Allied and Associated troops the aircraft of the Allied and Associated Powers shall enjoy in Austria freedom of passage through the air, freedom of transit and of landing. ARTICLE 147. During the six months following the coming into force of the present Treaty, the manufacture, importation and exportation of aircraft, parts of aircraft, engines for aircraft, and parts of engines for aircraft shall be forbidden in all Austrian territory. ARTICLE 148. On the coming into force of the present Treaty, all military and naval aeronautical material must be delivered by Austria and at her expense to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. Delivery must be effected at such places as the Governments of the said Powers may select, and must be completed within three months. In particular, this material will include all items under the following heads which are or have been in use or were designed for warlike purposes :— Complete aeroplanes and seaplanes, as well as those being manufactured, repaired or assembled. Dirigibles able to take the air, being manufactured, repaired, or assembled. Plant for the manufacture of hydrogen. Dirigible sheds and shelters of every kind for aircraft. Pending their delivery, dirigibles will, at the expense of Austria, be maintained inflated with hydrogen; the plant for the manufacture of hydrogen, as well as the sheds for dirigibles, may, at the discretion of the said Powers, be left to Austria until the time when the dirigibles are handed over. |