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...Chinese Army today. President Chiang threatened fortnight ago to declare war on Japan (TIME, Oct. 19). Last week he kept quiet, despatched urgent wires to northern War Lords who might join in a fight with Japan. Two of these, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang "The Christian General" in Inner Mongolia and Marshal Yen Hsi-shan "The Model Governor" are doughty battlers whose names are Chinese household words. If they joined President Chiang, and they have joined him before (TIME, Dec. 24,1928), China could oppose Japan with perhaps 200,000 trained and equipped soldiers, plus a rag-tag & bobtail...
...Inner Mongolia by means of puppet governments of servile Chinese. . . . Mukden was almost a dead city when I left. The Japanese had closed the banks and Northwestern University, and huge numbers of the Chinese population had fled...
Markets & Manchuria. Manchuria, Mongolia, in fact all of China is to Japan what Canada is to the U. S., her primary market for manufactured goods. Undeveloped Manchuria is particularly valuable to overpopulated Japan for it lies next to Japanese Korea and is the obvious point for Japanese expansion. Mongolia, the country north and west of Peiping, produces wool, hides, bristles, human hair, sausage casings. For centuries these products have come down on long caravans of shaggy camels into China Proper-to Peiping and the port of Tientsin. But beyond Manchuria and Mongolia lies Russia. For several years the Soviets have...
...Until 1924 Buddhists in Tibet, Mongolia & China looked up to two Lamas or Living Buddhas: the Panchen Lama or spiritual head of Buddhism, and the Dalai Lama or temporal ruler. Squabbling between these two holy men (fostered, said some observers, by British agents who found the Dalai Lama much more tractable) caused the Panchen Lama to flee from his headquarters in Tibet to China where he travels about, oblivious to and unharmed by all civil wars...
Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History, barred from further excavations in Mongolia by the Chinese Commission for the Preservation of Antiquities, stopped for a polo game at Peiping on his way home, fell off his pony, broke his collarbone...