ABSTRACT
The establishment of new production facilities at the Hupeh Arsenal ceased in the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century at about the same time as a sharp decline occurred in annual income. In the years after the Sino-Japanese War, unfixed income comprising loans, contributions, special appropriations, and the proceeds from the sale of munitions also provided an important part of total income varying from several hundred thousand taels to more than 800,000 taels annually. The Hanyang Mauser rifle and the ammunition that it employed became the sole products of the Hupeh Arsenal following the cutback of 1906. Production of the German 7.9 mm. Mauser "Infantry Rifle Model 1888" had begun at Hupeh late in 1895 in a plant purchased from the Ludwig Loewe Company, which had taken over the Mauser Works. Production at the Hupeh Arsenal was carried on despite overwhelming technological, personnel, supply, and financial problems that eroded its strategic industrial power.
