In all of the civil wars which jas illustrated here. have raged for and about Shanghai built by These works, during the past half century, tholis in Shanthai still) Cornish (wha ery of the combatants has been lor the Imp that they were fighting for posses-equipped most of the forts in Chine, have sion of the Kiangnen Arsenal (To-day, however, the, yung: That excuse will serve no longer. obsolete, und though they fire Yesterday the Arsenal was officially closed and handed over to the huge shell which can inflict terrible Chinese Chamber of Commerce, for damage if it strikes anything, they that body to arrange, with the ce-lon even the could be out-ranged by the' guns smallest of foreign operation of the Central Govern-'menvof-war in Chinese waters ment, for its removal to a different/ But where the Arsenal has proved part of the province, so, at least, really "useful hus: been in" the is generally understood.
The manufacture of rifles and pistols Arsenal is/for equipping the various armies in Shanghai, yet how imilar probably to every foreigner who have had control of it, together many people with the necessary ammunition, have 1a really definite idea of the Included in the arsenal isa structure, its size, purposes and and fairly well equi rifle power of production? originally "des for arsenal was established" in' making the old rifle, well over 50 years ago; /and afterwards the nal arsenal was in Nan-manufacture of the single-shot ig, and the scheme for removing Mauser, later the 7.9 ram, Mauser it to Shanghai emanated from the'and more recently wha, is known, brains of the powerful Viceroy as the Chinese 6.8 mum. Mauve 'Tseng Kuo-fan and the yet more' Additions have been made tothe famous Li Hung-chang. "The Im-original plant from time to time, Government at that time/but no great thought has been was seized with a craze for a given to economy st manufacture modern army well equipped with with the result that large number heavy artillery, with the result of workmen have been required that "the Kiangnan Arsenal was turn out a comparatively. small built to manufacture anything from: number of ritle: 'a Mauser pistol to a 12-inch gun, Another most useful department ud actually has manufactured of the arsenal has been th Gun several of these colossal weapons, Factory, which contains a consider,
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