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The First Of A Series Of Articl Journalist On Mongolia, Which Th
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American mention of Inner Mongolia is likely to bring up a surrealistic vision of dinosaur eggs.
There is more to it than that.
annex sovietised Outer Mongolia | the bulk of the po Mongolia is a collision ground to Japanised Inner Mongolia-so mensely ambitiou for Russian, Japanese and Chinese that all the Mongoliana may be might take years influencesa possible theatre for united under one banner, as they tion! But alread the next great Far Eastern war were in the days of the great is under way, wit a chessboard of international po-
Thus are the of an offensive Ghenghis Khan. litics, in which the simple, deca- Japanese pandering to the intense 120 miles west of dent, disease-riddled Mongols are nationalism of the Mongolian peo- new terminus of
yuan Railway. the pawns.
ple.
To-day the 3,000,000 or more Every foot of I am making a seven-day jour- ney through the Inner Mongolian pastoral folk who make up the the present line d corridor, that 300-mile wide rib- Mongolian race are divided un- anti-Communist w bon of rolling plateau land which evenly between Outer Mongolia, the Japanese arm and up a barrier bety undulates from the Manchukuoan Inner Mongolia, Manchukuo border for 700 miles westward Russia. Their most fervent desire China.
is to be reunited and independent,
TRAFFIC A along China's northern frontier. Right through the middle of this as of old.
The centuries thinly populated zone of grass- Unless something else inter- land runs the Peking-Suiyuan venes to set off the Russo-Japan- Railway, which I have followed ese tinderbox, Japan's pan-Mon- here, to its end, in China's far golian movement may yet be the cause of war. Outer Mongolia is twice the size of Inner Mongolia
northwest.
reason to
SETTING UP BARRIER Japan's grab of Inner Mongolia and separates it from Siberia in was envisioned in the notorious the North. A mutual defence Tanaka Memorandum years ago. pact binding Outer Mongolia to But it was not until the incident Russia requires the Soviet army at Marco Polo bridge in the sum-to come to the assistance of its mer of 1937 gave them a suitable Mongolian protectorate if it is at- pretext that the Japanese militar-tacked. There is no ists were able to carry out their believe that Russia would “crawl" long-conceived plan. What I have on this agreement, for Outer Mon- seen along this railway reveals golian is a vital cushion for Rus- strikingly how the Japanese are sian's Siberian defences.
JAPANESE ARMY IS COCKY utilising the Mongolian corridor
The Japanese will act against as a barrier between China and Russia, how they plan to utilising Outer Mongolia when they are it as a springboard for further good and ready-not before. But expansion into Central Asia and there is not much doubt that the absorption of Outer how they are preparing to thrust eventual a dagger into the extended and Mongolia is as much a fixed fea vulnerable southern flank of Rus-ture of Japan's continental policy sia when the day of reckoning as was the seizure of Manchuria and the penetration of Inner Mon- with that country arrives.
Militarily, Inner Mongolia is the golia. It Russia is drawn in in the most important of all Japan's ter- process, well, that will be just too ritorial seizures since the occupa-bad-for Russia in the view of tion of Manchuria, for it prepares the ever-cocky Japanese army.
The Japanese army believes its the way for Japan's supreme con-
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fic across Mongi Asia continues. of scale, despite wa
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Here, where the pi caravans meet the sea, I saw a specta might easily have from "The Adven Polo".
Just outside the walls of this from assembled more t camels. They ha and hides from fa just as their pr been doing for them. But the loa ry back into the clude items such
never saw nor dre The caravans |
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tinental adventure-war with destiny lies not only north but not only with tea Russia. Everything which the Jap-west. It was easy for the Jap the past, but als anese are doing in Inner Mongolia anese to push along the Peking-laneous assortme is being done with that major ob- Suiyuan Railway to its western piece goods, jective in view. Japanese officials terminus here. But there are still goods and Japane along the border talk about the 1,500 miles to go to the beckoning cash changes hai
and unexploited heights of Cen- transactions are next Russo-Japanese war as you and I would talk about next Satur- tral Asia and the westernmost they have unload the camel drivers day's bowls game an event which boundaries of China. has already been scheduled.
Far seeing Japanese envision ty and vermin-ri the extension of the railway west-stand by until OUTER MONGOLIA NEXT ward from Paotou, through the Meanwhile the h The Japanese army's immediate fringe of the Gobi Desert to Ning- resplendent in job in Inner Mongolia is to con-haia Province, through Ninghsia brown coats of w solidate its military position, ex- to Kansu and finally up the pan-or lie about the ploit the enormous
of handle of that slongated province ing their cuds wi coal, iron and wool and, most im- into Sinklang—or. Chinese Tur portant, strengthening the puppet, kestan-where Russian influence Mongolian government into a is strongly entrenched among the powerful military ally. The next Tarters, Turks, Mongols and Mo- move, all aro agreed, would be an I hammedan Chinese, who make up Mongolia and cer
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