MOSQUITO REPUBLICS AT WAR.
COLOMBIAN AND VENEZUELAN FOROES. The Vdurzuehn Navy compiises three s'e>nrrs, two sialing vesse's and s' me small river gunboits The heaviest ship is tho punhnt of 832 tms. The standing a-my consists of about 3600 men dispersed in twenty to.vns, the frd»'al garrisons :;nd the navy. The national militia has been raised in time of civil war to a strength . f 60,000. There are 250,000 citizens able to bear arms according to law. The Colombian Navy consists of one ' ■ iver gunboat and two other small vessels. The Colombian standing army on a, peue foo'ing is 1000 men, hut every ■ ble-bodied mm is lUble for service in'! th« executive can r >{s•* the strength in time of war as required.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 210, 11 September 1901, Page 3
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123MOSQUITO REPUBLICS AT WAR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 210, 11 September 1901, Page 3
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