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...Mongolia (TIME, Oct. 29, 1923); Dr. William Lyon Phelps of Yale, optimistic critic of literature; Dr. Irving Fisher of Yale, economist-Prohibitionist; Dr. Max L. Margolis of Dropsie College, philologist and Jewish historian...
Alarmist travelers from northern China told: 1) that a Soviet Russian army of 50,000 men is assembling in Mongolia north of Peking; 2) that the "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang is moving slowly down upon North Central China with his large itinerant army (TIME...
Turkestan, Mongolia. Assistant Director James L. Clark of the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan) and Explorer William J. Morden of Chicago reached home last fortnight with numerous Asiatic quadrupeds for stuffing-ovis poli, ibex, roe deer, gazelles, etc., etc.-and with anecdotes which needed no stuffing. Against all advice they had penetrated the snow-blocked Pamirs into Russian Turkestan, threaded the glaciered Tian-Shan range, crossed Chinese Turkestan and headed for Urga in Mongolia. One evening an armed band of Mongols surrounded their camel train, confiscated all arms and ammunition, waved aside the travelers' passports, tied their hands...
...previously extraneous force entering the Chinese Civil War, last week was the advance southwestward from Shensi Province into Honan of the "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang with an army which has long skulked in Mongolia (TIME, June...
...Jerboa or jumping rodents of Mongolia were reported last week to have become carriers of the Black Plague and to be spreading it with appalling mortality among dwellers on the steppes near Irkutsk...