Word: khoto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost all accounts of Outer Mongolia for the last 15 years have originated in Russia. A few shepherds, it is said, now follow their flocks on bicycles. Ulan Bator Khoto, the capital, has three-story buildings, a theatre and traffic lights, although camels are more numerous than automobiles. Baby industries-machine shops, an arsenal, a power station, leather, shoe and textile factories-have been established. Six months ago excited Mongols raced their tough little ponies against the first railroad train they had ever seen when service was started on a 25-mile narrow-gauge line connecting Ulan Bator Khoto with...
...rail and motor route from British Burma, the Chinese are now almost wholly dependent on the Soviet Union for their foreign supplies. These are either flown in by Russian planes or trucked in over the Sian-AIma Ata highway, linking China with Soviet territory, or the Lanchow-Ulan Bator Khoto highway, connecting China with Sovietized Outer Mongolia. Last week Japanese troops were spotted in Inner Mongolia, headed for the Lanchow-Ulan Bator Khoto road...