Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...central point of controversy is admitted to be the romantic and potentially superb Chinese Eastern Railway, which runs through Manchuria and Mongolia to Russia. A great part of it is now under absolute Soviet control. France, America and Japan are interested in the railway. The Russians say that negotiations broke down owing to the sinister interference of France, America and Japan. Certainly the Japanese expressed delight when they learned of Mr. Wang's failure...
...Monday, Dr. Koo took up the task. But on Tuesday M. Karaghen said that he would consider nothing but unconditional recognition. Meanwhile Russian troops were in Mongolia and were likely to remain there defending Mongolian independence from the Chinese Republic. But it was considered extremely unlikely that the Russians would advance into Manchuria, for that would precipitate Japanese action...
China. Mr. Andrews, accompanied by his wife Yvette, heads the third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of National History. Leaving Peking last Spring they went to the railroad's end beyond Kalgan in the Khingan mountains. By motor they passed through the gateway of Inner Mongolia and across the Gobi Desert, 1,000 miles. Some went to Urga, present capital of Mongolia; Andrews and the main party turned south to the Altai ranges to fossil fields located last season when the skull of Baluchitherium, giant primitive rhinoceros, was discovered...
China. The third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History found in Mongolia the skull of another dinosaur, the titanothere, besides other choice fossils...
...this sort of research and sends out annually a large number of expeditions. Its third Asiatic expedition has just left Peking under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews, the well-known naturalist and explorer. It will prospect for six months the treasures of the Gobi Desert and Inner Mongolia, known to be rich in fossil flora and fauna, including mastodons and mammoths, which are believed to have wandered eastward from their source in central Asia. Popular expectations with regard to the " missing link " of human evolution and the site of the "Garden of Eden" are hardly likely to be realized...