Articles On Outer Mongolia, The Author,
East, Writes On The
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golian nationalism. en: the Mongols au- y over the thinly re lands but also tant part of the area of Mongolia. fact that of the under the adminis- le Mongolian all- nment, only 300,- ols. Virtually all are Chinese. The entrated, however, of the Peking-Sui- vhile the expanses on the two sides ed by Mongolian
s safe to say that ike the Japanese as do the Chinese-if the Mongols realize lessness and know no choice but to the army which sitting on them at The Mongols are atest opportunists,
race which has a of racial pride. who gives them and aeroplanes as es them to press a ir ultimate goal
dence,
Mongols are com- Chinese, the Ja- orded them greater ministration than itted to any of
Daily flights into the sub-stratosphere from Mildenhall, Suffolk enable the Air Ministry to forecast weather conditions far over the Atlantic for trans-ocean pilots. The work is done by the Meteoro- logical Flight of the R.A.F. who every day fly to 2500 ft. in winter often encountering temperatures of 80 degrees below freezing. They have an anbroken run of over 1500-flights since the last cancellation of a scheduled flight in Nov. 1986. The flights were established in 1924, and their present work, is done by two pilots flying Gloster Gauntlet single-seat fighters whose armament is replaced by sensitive weather-recording instruments. Weather reports obtained are col- lated with information from other sources to aid Atlantic pilots. Photo shows a pilot, complete with oxygen mask, all set for a flight into the sub-stratosphere. (Passed by the Air Ministry);
et regimes. There these rough-and-ready Mongolian population of 800,000 nomads and n a dozen Japanese soldiers, who marched with entral headquarters.
them
rich deposits of minerals locked in
its mountains, is a coveted prize cam of the future. The Japanese are outer looking even farther than
Buriat gave Mongolia, into.
Siberia; where the population is prepon- derantly of Mongolian origin. What better tools for the realization of this dream of Mongolian empire than the Mongols of inner Mon-
government here, out of Manchukuo on their ONDESCRIPTS paign of conquest into inner Mon-
army, an assort- golia. They armed them, nondescripts and them horses and clothed them in ted in Manchukuo, warm furs. In return the Mongo- thority and freedom lian army has fought well against an the Japanese the Chinese. Gen. Li Shou-hsin, commander of the Mongolian army m of giving to a
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Infortunately for the and for this reason one of the golis?" ver, these armed most powerful figures in the Mongo
exbandit dviolated this trust lian government, is the people, robbing chieftain of Sino-Mongolian origin ans and indulging who was picked up by the Japanese of looting whenever in Chahar several years ago.
offers. The result Don't think for a minute that the lation dislikes them Japanese army has set up an au- ngs for the "good tonomous government in inner they were ruled by Mongolia just to make 300,000 which behaved Mongols happy. The Japanese have their eyes on outer Mongolia's nor- have done well by thern neighbour, which, with
By George McManus
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GHENGHIS KHAN
In inner Mongolia time is figured as we figure it. This is not the year 1939, nor is it the 28th year of the Chinese republic, nor is it the second year of the Mongolian autonomous government. No, Mongolia, under the Japanese measures its time from the period of its greatest leader, Chenghis Khan, who seven centuries ago conquered half the known world, In inner Mongolia this is the 7884 year of the "era of Ghenghis Khan? Just as in China, the Chinese troops waar buttons bear ing the portrait of Chiang Kai- shel Mongolia it is the likeness enghis Khan which every soldier wears on his
Japanese army is the Mongols the ed Mongolia and a glory of the Khana. aak only Mongolian their intrigues Mongolia Russia and
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