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According to report, Outer Mongolia is to be declared a republic. After the Chinese revolution...
...this province of Kansu, which sticks out between Mongolia and Tibet like a bottle-neck, that we did some of our most interesting and least spectacular work. The Indian traders had used this trade-route for centuries, and we found many of their original holy books, written on long paper scrolls, in the original Sanskrit, or translated by medieval scholars into Chinese or Turki. It was significant because of the light it shed on the influence these traders, straggling periodically over the mountain passes, had on the art of the early Chinese...
...attempt on the part of Peking students to force Koo's hand by staking a demonstration in favor of recognition. The Cabinet approved Koo's suggestion of a recognition treaty, to be signed simultaneously with an exchange of notes, settling the Soviet evacuation of Mongolia and the question of Russian Church property...
...central point of controversy is admitted to be the romantic and potentially superb Chinese Eastern Railway, which runs through Manchuria and Mongolia to Russia. A great part of it is now under absolute Soviet control. France, America and Japan are interested in the railway. The Russians say that negotiations broke down owing to the sinister interference of France, America and Japan. Certainly the Japanese expressed delight when they learned of Mr. Wang's failure...
...Monday, Dr. Koo took up the task. But on Tuesday M. Karaghen said that he would consider nothing but unconditional recognition. Meanwhile Russian troops were in Mongolia and were likely to remain there defending Mongolian independence from the Chinese Republic. But it was considered extremely unlikely that the Russians would advance into Manchuria, for that would precipitate Japanese action...