KK Wiener Zeitung 3Q1903

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 Passanger liner leaving for New York, Triest, July 1903

- "Barely back home, and off again, eh Brunner?" - remarked an Austrian infantry officer with some medals and a "Spanien" cuffband.
- "Yup, Kloss" - replained a similarly attired figure - "We are to teach the Amerikaners about modern warfare. And in return they supposedly are to show some tricks to our navy boys."
   
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Posted: Oct 26 2006, 07:04 AM


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Pola, September 1903

The SMS Frankreich, back in its mother port, was subject to a small invasion of artillery officers and some civilians who installed strange devices in turrets, tops, conning tower. And then she spent many hours on the firing range, wearing out her liners and amunition stocks.
Back in port the main and secndary guns received shells of a type not yet seen by the mariners.
   
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Posted: Oct 27 2006, 06:17 AM


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Kaiserlich-Koeniglich Wiener Zeitung

The "in" charity this year seem to the newly created Levantine Orphanages and Good Works Eucumenic Initiative, with hefty contributions from court circles.
The initiative has set up boys' and girls' institutions in Beirut, but the children come from the Vilayets (province in Tukish) of Beirut and Siria. The girls are being thaught homemaking skills, to read and write in the local language (the brighter ones also German), and older ones - depending on temperament - trades like teachers, midwives, nurses.
Boys' education is to be focused more on the practical and athletic, teamwork, leadership skills, not on the erudite, although literacy is compulsory.
Regardless of creed and sex, the children will learn Aramean, also called Syrian.
   
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Posted: Oct 27 2006, 09:13 AM


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Kaiserlich-Koeniglich Wiener Zeitung, August

The Marine Amt revealed that it has placed orders for 4 large ships. The ships are modelled after passanger liners, and in peacetime would be chartered out to civilian concerns to transport emigrants, and would carry troops in wartime.
As our industry does not yet have the expertise to build turbines for such large vessels, two will be built in New York, and two in Nikolayev. The planned names are SMHS Ersebeth Bathory, SMHS Lucrecia Borgia, SMHS Salome and SMHS Xantype.
   
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Posted: Oct 28 2006, 11:53 AM


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Kaiserlich-Koeniglich Wiener Zeitung, September

Our newspaper has been flooded with letters, mostly angry in tone, from our readers. These are mostly from fathers and mothers of 18-20 year old men from Good Families. The issue causing their ire are recruitment criteria for Military Academies. Under pre-1903 regulations the young men in question could directly join Officer Schools. However, the Emperor's Edict from October of last year introduced the eligibility criteria for all applicants to Officer Schools of having performed 2 years of service in the ranks.
The country-wide outcry seems to have had an effect in the Kriegsministerium, which has relented somewhat:
- this year, and until 1905, graduates of Kadettenschullen are automaticaly granted rank of Gefreiter, and after a year are promoted to Faehnrich;
- this year, and until 1905, graduates of Militaerrealschulen are automaticaly granted rank of Gefreiter, and after a year are enrolled in the Militaerakademien;
- the institution of the One Year Volunteer (Einjaehrig Freiwillige) is abolished;
- from 1905 the ranks of Feldwebel and Faenrich become Warrant Officers;
- from 1905 graduates of Cadet and Military schools will have no privilidges, although their military schooling should help them in faster promotions.

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If someone wishes to unravel the Austrian system of Officer recruitment, here you are:
http://www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk/austamps/...dn2.htm#APPENDC
About two-thirds down - Recruitment of Officers.
I am messing up with the Social Order!!!