[33] [Service with the colours in Russia has been reduced generally from five to three years.—Ed.]
[34] The transport was not fully horsed.
[35] [By this expression is meant a land not belonging to Russia.—Ed.]
[36] [The term used by common folk in Russia when addressing men of higher birth.—Ed.]
[37] Owing to famine in the Kholm district in the years just before the war, the reservists in it were called up later than those in the neighbouring districts, and the majority of them were consequently stationed on the line of communications.
[38] [Summary courts-martial under martial law.—Ed.]
[39] With two-wheeled baggage-carts, the number has to be increased by an additional fifty-four men.
[40] Cooks and mess caterers, eighteen of each—i.e., sixteen per company, and two with scout sections, one mounted, one dismounted.
[41] Three per company.
[42] [This is taking a regiment at 4,000—i.e., the men actually in the firing-line and not employed specially—for scout sections, etc.—Ed.]