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lowing extract from the Special Police Reserve Ordinance of 1914 is published for the inform ation of members desiring to Notices of resignation should be forwarded through Unit Commanders
1914 ORDINANCE 27. Se&. Any member may, except when actually enrolled as Special Constable under the Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886, or under. section 10 of this Ordinance, quite the Reserve an complying with the following conditions.
(a) giving the Captain Super- intendent of Police three months' notice in writing of his intention:
(b) delivering up in good order, fair wear and tear only excepted, all arms and ammunition, cloth-1 ing and appointments, being property issued to him: and
(c) paying all money due or becoming due by him under this Ordinance either before or at the time or by reason of his quitting it
(£400,000) from Russia for the purpose
establishing the finances on a sound basis. Part of the money was expended upon the purchase of arms, but the greater part went to Warsaw to pay for 10,000 brass images of The Peking correspondent of Buddha. The financial situation, the Times writes:Among the however, has solved itself satis. quiet backwaters of the world factorily, for the new Government that have been affected by the has levied a 5 per cent duty on war is Mongolia. The inhabit-goods entering. Mongolia from ants of this great waste-land China, and has saved enough to acknowledged allegiance to liquidate the debt to Russia. China until the Revolution, Otherwise the Government has which put an end to the Manchu been a success, mainly because dynasty. When the Macchus little administration is required. fell the Mongolians, like the The patriarchal system, whereby Tibetans, turned the Chinese out each tribe is self-contained and of their country and declared self-governed, obriates expendi-the Government the Band will themselves independent.
Pure on defence, police, judiciary,
practically
non-existent.
Thereupon he shall be struck off the strength by the Captain Superintendent of Police: Pro- vided that the Governor shall have full power at all times to permit any member to quit the Reserve on complying with con- ditions (b) and (c) in this section.
BAND.
At the request of His Excel- lency the Officers Administering
parade or the 30th inst. at 9.30 a.m. at Blake Fier to meet His Excellency the Governor arrival. Statue Pier was given in error in yesterday's orders.
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There were particular reasons and so forth, while public works for the action of the Mongolians.are Chinese settlers had been slowly ON FINANCIAL DEBAUCH. but persistently colonising. the
Contrary to expectation, then, southern and eastern edges of the plateau of Mongolia, and the the Mongolian Government did not engage upon a financial Mongols were feeling nervous as to the intentions of their ungain-debauch leading to the usual ly neighbour. Russia also at this result, but busbanded its small time developed apprehension of revenue and left the country to the penetrative powers of the manage itself. Mongolia to-day, Chinese, because of their extend-therefore, is "free, peaceful, and ing colonisation in North Man-prosperous, and likely to remain churia as well as in Mongolia so while undisturbed by aggres She took the Mongol side in the sion from without.
The Mongols are nomads, and dispute with China and signed an agreement whereby Russia re are found settled only in the few towus of which Urga, Uliasutai, cognised the independence of and Kobda are the principal the dainty little liver and bowel Mongolia and incidentally secur ed for herself commercial and The wealth of the country there-regulators which act as gently as fore is in the shape of horses, nature. Try them to-night and other advantages in that country.
The Chinese Revolution came camels, sheep, and cattle, which see how fit you'll feel to-morrow. in the nick of time for Russian move slowly over the immense stretches of the Gobi desert, as designs; the Mongols were encouraged and assisted to do the Arabs with their flocks stand up against China, and and heres in Upper Mesopotamia Russia got what she wanted. The word desert, however, is a misnomer, for the Gobi is a carpet After two years of futile attempts of luxuriant grass and beautiful to re-enter Mongolia, China gave in, and signed the tripartite flowers in the spring and early 1915. summer, sand being confined to Kiachta Convention in
limited regions and appearing whereby Mongolia retained the rights recognized in. the only in narrow strips in the good Agreement with Russia, Russia country. The amount of pasturage likewise retaining what she hadis illimitable and much beyond gained, while China recognized the neccessities of the widely the Busso-Mongol Agreement, scattered tribes. In normal times but was accorded certain shadowy great numbers of animals are rights which gave her "face" bat exported into Russia and China, no power over Mongolia. The and the trade in hides and furs is Convention, however, gave China steadily increasing. The Mongols control of Inner Mongolia, the in exchange require principally narrow strip of territory on the brick-tea, cloth, and utensils. southern and eastern slopes of the Mongolian plateau.
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aon-political establish control over the country. Their great difficulty is trans-and give it a Mongolia knows not what the
situation present. future may being forth, and is an port, which is slow and expensive. character. aspirant for the protection of the Caravans take a month from League of Nations, The Mongols Kalgan to Urga, a distance that Mongolia is entirely satisfac- are anxious about their independ-motorcars have recently covered tory and the country offers an ence and desirous of its recogni-in two days. There are now two excellent field for commercial tion by the new institution which Chinese motor companies carry-enterprise. There is abundance is to secure the supremacy of passengers from Kalgan to of coal in the north, alluvial gold Urga. These companies make is found in considerable quantity, right over might.
Few students of Oriental things scrap-iron of their cars in aston- and there is a chaos of mountain ever expected good results from ishingly quick time, but continue and valley in the northern front- to buy more. They get all the ier region which, judging by the the new autonomous State set up
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to construct the connection be scope for mining endeavour. The Buddhist world to the Dalai Lama of Tibet, is a confirmed al-tween Kalgan and Verkhne Mongolians are perfectly ready Udinsk, on the Siberian Railway. to welcome foreign commercial coholic and blind into the bar-Such a line would immensely enterprise so long as their in- gain. As a reincarnation of develop the commerce of Monge-dependence is respected. Buddha, however, his influence
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