Word: mongol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southern Suiyuan, Captain Carlson visited famed Manchurian Leader General Ma Chan-shan, now carrying on guerrilla warfare near the border of Inner Mongolia. General Ma had supplemented his cavalry brigade with a formidable army of Mongol and Chinese deserters from forces organized by Japanese in their "puppet" states. Said Captain Carlson: "The Japanese have had no success in organizing Chinese armies to fight their battles for them. Already [General Ma] has 4,000 such converts in his ranks. While I was there a whole regiment of Manchukuoan soldiers arrived. They had murdered their ten Japanese officers and were still wearing...
This week Red Son Chiang was probably still with his mother, Miss Mao, but proverbially unreliable Chinese newspapers had him suddenly appearing in Suiyuan at the head of 100,000 Soviet Mongol troops...
...most highly prized item is the Morgan loan, a thirteenth century bestiary, the "Description of Animals" of Ibn Bakhtishu, the earliest known manuscript of the Mongol period of Persian art. The book was copied for the Emperor Ghazan Khan, of the Genghis Khan dynasty, and contains 94 colored drawings of animal subjects...
...battles last week in Shansi Province!" announced Chin. "They captured an entire Japanese battalion, including the commander, 60 truckloads of ammunition and one heavy, mounted gun with 2,000 projectiles. The Japanese lines crumbled under the swift, surprising blow ! More than 1,000 Japanese were killed and 10,000 Mongol and Japanese troops were disarmed. In the second battle our Communist troops penetrated clear to the rear of the Japanese lines by employing 'flying tactics' we used to use against Nanking...
...Japanese made one other major gain. With the help of Prince Te, a renegade Mongol who has long been a headache to the Nanking Government, Japanese troops, mainly from Manchukuo, battered their way from the North into Kalgan, the capital of Chahar on the Peiping-Suiyuan railroad. Ultimate aim of the Japanese was to take over the entire length of this railroad, thus thrusting a Japanese wedge between China and possible assistance from Sovietized Inner Mongolia...