Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
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...
...monastery and the country will be governed by a Regency. Nobody knew for certain who was pulling the strings that ran the Regency, but China's chances might be better. In August the Panchen Lama set out with a special trainload of food provisions and cash for Inner Mongolia where his Holiness could be within striking distance of Tibet, should the Faithful still desire...
...this as an opening against the dominant minority of Japanese jingoes. Asked Toshio Shimada, a Seiyukai (majority party) leader: "How does the Government reconcile the declaration of the Foreign Minister that there will be no war while he is in office with our present invasion of Inner Mongolia...
Contemptuously the Foreign Minister deigned no reply. His pacifist declaration had been made for foreign consumption, had nothing to do with the steady onrush of Japan's war machine which was crashing Inner and Outer Mongolia last week. Greatest glory of the week went to a Japanese Col. Wada, who captured a Lamaist temple on the Outer Mongolian border...