Sailors of Chinese cruiser Haiqi on parade in New York, New York, United States, 11 Sep 1911

Note the Mauser I.G.Mod.71 rifles, China purchased over 1,000,000 of these big black powder bolt guns which fired from a tubular magazine in the 1890s and they were evidently still good enough for Naval service in 1911. The Chinese Army at the time this picture was snapped fielded the Hanyang 88, itself a domestically-made copy of the German Gewehr 88.

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