MAUSER IN CHINA

FN-China 1894 contract and 7.65 mm Mauser rifle (1) FN-China 1894 Rifle Contract FN company documented a contract with China in October 1894, which alleged were delivered but the details had lost to time. In October 1896, Chinese Embassy to London attaché Wu Zonglian and official Fengling visited FN company. In Fengling’s later report filed for the Ministry of War that besides Brazilian contract, FN totally produced 100 thousands rifles for China, Colombia and Uruguay. Through research, this 1894 China contract now confirmed it was sold to Liu Kun’yi, Governors-General of Liang’Jiang, through Gong Zhao’ai, Chinese minister in London. The Sino-Japanese war broke out on July 25 1894, the Governors General issued a large amount of firearms and ammunitions to imperial army which were fighting against Japanese in northeastern China. After the defeat of Yellow Sea Battle, China coastal was under the threat of Japanese Navy invasion. To meet Nanyang’s desperately need of firearms, at Liu ...