27 MAY 1966, Page 9

Zpectator

May 26, 1866

The call of the Kaiser for men has at once been answered. and it is stated that he has 700.000 men enrolled, and the means of calling out 300.000 more. In Prussia the summons to the landwehr has almost emptied the cities, and interferes with every department of business. even professors. editors. bank clerks, railway officials, and artists being swept up to serve as private soldiers. The consequent discontent is very great, and the recruits in some instances very mutinous. Still they have all arrived. In Italy 300,000 men are collected on the frontier, the_ national guard has been mobilized, and twenty regiments of volunteers have been en- rolled amid universal rejoicing