On Inner Mongolia To-Day Writes On A 24-Hour
States
VIDE AND
n Army, Prince Teh (centre), chairman of the Auto- Japanese -Army.
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n peculiar value
the Japanese. In
we saw how the ing Inner Mon- carrier against Here in North
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duced little information. It is al- ways the Japanese military men and the Japanese advisers who give the clearest picture of what is what in the cities visited. For the most part, they are an enthusiastic, ef- ficient and amiable group of men. Like the empire builders of other imperialistic powers, however, they are obsessed with the illusion that they are bringing a civilizing in- fluence to their new subjects.
Japanese who come here to civilize the Chinese get an eye-opening ex- perience when they visit the Yung- kang caves, 20 miles north of Tatung, where they may gaze upon the sculptured achievement of a Chinese civilization which was at its height when Japan was still wallowing in uncultured darkness, 1,500 years ago.
KWANTUNG ARMY HAS OWN WAY
Japan's Kwantung army, in Man- chukuo, has always considered Chinese Inner Mongolia as its own ed under the puppet Mengchiang private apple orchard and has re- (Mongolian Border) Federated sented intrusion by other branches Council, with headquarters in Kal- of the Japanese army. It is not surprising,, then, that the majority gan.
of Japanese advisers in the various The council, which includes re governments of Mengchiang presentatives from each government Manchukuo trained, that the Mon- in the Inner Mongolian triumvirate, golian army is made up mainly of does not interfere in administrative Manchukuans and that the puppet matters but serves to co-ordinate regimes are patterned after the the military and financial problem Manchukuo government-in con- of three areas. By this device, the trast to the Japanese-sponsored gov- Japanese are able to nourish their ernments in other parts of China. unprofitable but cherished Mon-
golian autonomous their excess
regime with
are
takings from the Although Inner Mongolia has re- Tatung mines here. The Meng cently been placed within the juris- king at a state chiang region will probably be the diction of Japan's North China
al mine. The possessing im- igh quality coal, it on a profitable rning out fuel and munitions haps the richest ber Mongolian le iron mine at Chahar, where 00 tons of rich apan's gravest w materials.
NTS LINKED
its iron mines with its coal much stricter than the roll- the Mongolian ent whose im- litical. But all re loosely link-
BE GLAD ET HOME GET SOME
to
first of Japan's many puppet areas army, the Mengchiảng states still --not excluding Manchukuo
retain their insularity and their produce a profit on the investment. Manchukuan earmarks. So clannish Governmental overhead is low, re are they, and so aloof from other venues are comparatively high and
China governments that they may relatively few Japanese troops are
be expected to oppose. federation required for the garrisoning of the
with the new central Chinese gov- district's one important railway line.
ernment when it is formed.“ |
ARMY IS BIG BOSS
Don't let all this talk about pup-
But Tokyo will have the last word on that little matter.
(To be continued to-morrow)
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ways that the "big bosa" in Inner Mongolia is the Japanese army. Japanese troops are stationed in every important city along the Peking-Suiyuan railway. Without them these babied governments could not survive..
Talks with Chinese and Mongolian officials along the way have
By George McManus
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