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...strip out of the ragged map of China. In Mukden, Correspondent Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune stumbled into a war council between five Mongolian princes and General Gregory Semenov and emerged to wireless his paper of a move to set up an independent state in Inner Mongolia...
...people outside of Asia know, or care, anything about Mongolia. It is underpopulated, isolated by great mountain ranges. Once an entity, it has been split up. Outer Mongolia, with Soviet help, became an independent Republic in 1924 and is still closely tied to Moscow. But fertile Inner Mongolia is still under Chinese rule. To break this rule is the task General Semenov and his willing Mongol allies have set themselves. That Japan was behind the movement, would dominate the new state if it was formed, not even the Mongol princes took the trouble to deny...
General Semenov said he wanted to make Inner Mongolia independent of both Soviet Russia and China, would make it "a haven of refuge for homeless White Russians." The five Mongols solemnly nodded their heads. Up went the general's Satanic mustachios. "I can provide 50,000 trained White Russians who have served in the Tsarist forces," said he. "The Mongolians can provide 100,000 trained cavalrymen...
...right up to the Great Wall, clinched their hold on all of southern Manchuria. There were reports that ferocious-looking General Gregory Semenov, who led a White Army against the 'Soviet in 1917, was conferring with five Mongol Princes about a plan for promoting the independence of Inner Mongolia. Because it failed to win the support of France, Great Britain or Italy, U. S. Secretary of State Stimson's strongly worded note citing the Kellogg Peace Pact and the Nine-Power Treaty (protecting China's independence) left Japanese army headquarters completely unimpressed. U. S. correspondents in Mukden...
...Mongolia appeared the Dar Khan, barbaric Prince of the Blood, friendly to Chinese. In Peiping he vowed that Japanese agents had offered him bribes to declare the independence of Inner Mongolia and become its puppet ruler, protected by Japan...