Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's fighting in Jehol meant only hindrance to Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, famed digger of fossils in Mongolia. Dr. Andrews recognized the State of Manchukuo last autumn, arranged with the Regency to continue his Mongolian diggings. As soon as Japan pacifies the region, he will dart in with Dodge cars, camels and naturalists. He has closed the Peking headquarters from which he led five expeditions between 1921 and 1930 at a cost...
Manchuria is found to be the Three Eastern Provinces of China, whereas Japan has contended that it includes a fourth province (Jehol) and much of Inner Mongolia...
...tourist centres of the world-more so than ever now that the vast, incredible Forbidden City with its acres of palaces beneath acres of yellow tile roofs has been opened to visitors. Manchuria may go to Japan, Canton and the south may secede, Outer Mongolia may be quietly absorbed by Russia, but so long as the central Nanking government has a semblance of control over Peiping they can claim with justice to be the government of China...
Tang-in-the-Woodpile. Close observers realized that what was chiefly at stake last week was the loyalty of General Tang Yulin, the biggest boss in Eastern Inner Mongolia, who rules as Governor in Jehol...
...Eastern Inner Mongolia can be brought under Japanese sway by a few bombs & threats instead of by fierce fighting, so much the better for Japan. According to Chinese reports, Japanese soldiers have seized in Manchoukuo real estate, palaces and stocks of opium worth $10,000,000 belonging to General Tang. Better for Japan than realty and opium are the three main products of Eastern Inner Mongolia, about one of which Emperor Hirohito spoke last week: wool, hides, wheat. With extreme Oriental acumen Governor Tang rushed eight motor truck loads of "treasure" from Jehol into the Italian Settlement at Tientsin last...