Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might lend His Holiness a few fast bombing planes for an air raid on Tibet's forbidden capital of Lhasa. Last week in Peiping the Panchen Lama chartered a special train, loaded it with food, cash, military supplies arid his elaborate religious gear and chuffed off toward Inner Mongolia, whence he would have to proceed some 2,000 miles by caravan to Lhasa...
...than attempt to go by air." On his one & only flight, according to the airplane's crew, His Holiness the Panchen Lama was "grievously and continuously air sick." Skeptics doubted last week whether the Panchen Lama was seriously starting for Tibet, expected him to settle down in Inner Mongolia with the funds he has collected...
...over China, she managed deftly to acquire a strangling grasp on certain important Chinese economic interests, such as the Han-Yehping mines, as well as significant privileges in Manchuria. Her recent advances in this tremendously important region need no comment, and these are being supplemented by subterranean movements in Mongolia and Sinkiang. From these it would appear, with little exaggeration, that Japan is adopting a veritable Einkreisungspolitik in regard to China proper...
...crowning of this doll," cried Shanghai's Sin Wan Pao, "grossly insults the whole Chinese people. We must continue the revolutionary spirit which resulted in the Manchu dynasty's overthrow to clean away this gross humiliation." Added the China Times: "It is preliminary to Japanese expansion in Mongolia whose people are devoted to the Manchu household...
...birthplace, parents and person of the child Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho. Taking office in 1893, this Dalai Lama distinguished himself in other ways. Previously all his predecessors in modern times had died mysteriously before reaching majority-a fact not surprising since a common figure in Tibet and Mongolia is the sinister Tzuren or poison-doctor who practices his art to keep the "ins" in, the "outs" out. That the Dalai Lama escaped the Tzuren until...