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...autonomous puppet states carved from Chinese territory and under the tutelage of Japan are Manchukuo, and the more recent "Mongokuo" in outer Chahar Province (TIME, March 29). Eastern Hopei Province, almost adjoining Peiping, is equally but less formally under Japanese control, has as its executive a toothy Chinese puppet named Yin Ju-keng (TIME, May 11 et ante). Puppet Yin avoids interviewers, has a hearty dislike of being photographed with his chunky Japanese military advisers, but last week a snowstorm kept him overnight in the port of Tientsin and Correspondent A. T. Steele of the New York Times, visiting...
Prime mover in Mongokuo's "independence movement," and Dictator Chiang Kai-shek's Bogieman No. 1, last week was triple-chinned Mongol Prince Teh, who for months past has dominated Mongokuo under Japan's aegis. Exclaimed a Chinese traveler, just returned to Shanghai after a six-month visit to Mongokuo: "I am astonished that the world has not heard of this new state!" For months Mongokuo has had a de facto government, headed by Prince Teh, together with an army of some 10,000 Mongolians and Manchukuoans officered and commanded by Japanese. Governmental departments are headed...
...Mongokuo has long had its own post office, issues its own stamps for internal use. Letters going "abroad" are handled by Manchukuo's post office. Mongokuo even flies its own flag, blue with a square of horizontal red, yellow, white and black stripes in one corner...
...months past military equipment from bullets to airplanes has poured in from Manchukuo. Some of the planes bear the Japanese emblem of the Rising Sun, others the crossed thunderbolts of Prince Teh. All Mongokuo's tanks and planes are in charge of Japanese mechanics...
These military preparations, so newshawks in China assume, are for a new Japanese attack upon Suiyan which must be conquered before Japanese militarists can begin to draw their projected iron ring around Russia's Outer Mongolia. Tokyo's bland explanation of Mongokuo's piled-up tanks and planes was lately voiced by a member of Japan's Foreign Office: "The Mongols are striving to preserve themselves from Communists against whom they are preparing for a war of self-defense." Overlooked by the Tokyo spokesman was the fact that the nearest Chinese Communist army was 400 miles...