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Originally Posted by mcchordsage
The Austrians had upgraded to the M1895 Mannlicher mostly I think, plus the M1890 Mannlicher carbine.
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Mostly, but they hadn't reached everywhere yet. The M.95's first combat use seems to have been the First Balkan War in 1912, in Bulgarian service.
All of the other mentioned weapons, to the best of my knowledge, did not see service in the Boxer Rebellion (although a few of the oldest may have been used by the Boxers). WW1 would see all sorts of ancient firearms brought out for rear echelon duty.
The Boxers themselves had a variety of arms. According to Ian Heath's
Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Asia, the Qing armed the Boxers with Snider-Enfields, Marlins (probably 1894s), Winchesters (probably 1892s), Mausers (at least one Mauser 71 was captured during the campaign), and Mannlichers. I suspect there probably also were Hanyang 88s, a Chinese development of the Gewehr 88.