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Between Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia (Russian sphere of influence) lies the vast Inner Mongolian plateau, a flat wilderness of grass ruled by hairy, fur-clad Mongol princes under the nominal overlordship of China's Nanking Government. Last month from every corner of Chahar and Suiyuan Provinces the princes of Mongolia left their herds of horses, camels and sheep to ride toward the great Lama Temple at Bathahalak, 100 mi. north of Kweihwa. In a little valley they found it, an exquisite cluster of white Manchu buildings, gold-crested pinnacles, infested by bearded monks. They set up their fur yurts...
Spurring full speed on a shaggy Mongolian pony, War Lord Tang flourished his repeating rifle, drew bead on a stationary target, riddled its bulls-eye with lead. ''Marshal Tang is also a dead pistol shot," boasted one of his officers. "He shoots with his left hand, with his right and with both hands at once...
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...
...expeditions often consisted of racing desert animals. The Gobi Desert has a rock floor which in many places is smooth enough for a motor car to travel at top speed. Thus Dr. Andrews found that the Mongolian wild ass attains a speed of 40 m.p.h., the wolf 36 m.p.h., the antelope 60 m.p.h. Once from his moving car he shot a running buck, completely severing a hind leg. On three legs the maimed animal kept running at 25 m.p.h. for five miles, then escaped...
...Jehol, the buffer province between "China Proper" and "Manchuria Proper." Spouting hot springs make the oases ideal for growing opium. Opium has made vastly rich the Governor of Jehol, walrus-mustached War Lord Tang Yulin. Last week Tang's strapping big North Chinese soldiers on their small, shaggy Mongolian ponies, jogged down precipitous mountain passes to pot shot at the mighty clanking War Machine of Imperial Japan as it debouched from the railway...