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...Manchukuan and Mongolian border guards were still sniping at each other ineffectively last week (TIME, Feb. n & 18) when precise Japanese army headquarters at Mukden suddenly realized that nobody was quite certain what all the shooting was for. Troubles of the past few weeks were supposed to be caused by a border dispute, but since the district between the Manchukuan province of Hsingan and Outer Mongolia has never been accurately surveyed, even Japanese maps never put the border in exactly the same place in any two editions...
...some embarrassment the Chief of the Mongol Affairs Department of the Manchukuan Government, left Hailar last week for the great and little known lake of Bor Nor. With him he took a whole battalion of surveyors to establish 28 observation posts along the border, rectify the present "typographical errors" that show the Mongol border passing sometimes through the lake, sometimes around...
There was new fighting in Outer Mongolia last week between Mongolian and Manchukuan troops. Details were scarce and the Nationalist Government in Nanking preferred to think of other things. And they had good news to think about. Until 1924 Buddhists in Tibet looked up to two Lamas or Living Buddhas, the Panchen Lama, or spiritual head, and the Dalai Lama or temporal head of Buddhism. British intrigue found the Dalai Lama more willing to listen to reason. The Panchen Lama fled to China, where for the past eleven years he has been traveling about in a bright yellow railway...
Over the line last week went 4,000 Japanese and Manchukuan troops assembled fortnight ago on the border between Manchukuan Jehol and Mongolian Chahar (TIME, Jan. 28). Striking quickly, with tanks, bombing planes, heavy artillery, the Japanese force swept aside frostbitten, ill-equipped Chinese irregulars along a 30-mile front, captured three towns. Estimated casualties...
Meanwhile Manchukuan troops under Japanese officers swooped out along the lines of C. E. R., arresting 46 station agents and engineers. They were taken to Harbin and jailed on the pretext that a plot had been discovered to assassinate hollow-eyed Emperor Kang Teh. According to the Japanese, bandit raids on C. E. R. have been financed by Soviet agents from the Red Army base at Khabarovsk. Finally last week the Imperial Japanese Army propaganda bureau in Tokyo issued what Russians interpreted as a threat that Japan means eventually to seize C. E. R. without paying Moscow so much...