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GENGHIS KHAN - Ralph Fox - Ear-court, Brace ($3). Story of the medieval warrior (real name: Temujin) who brought the Mongol Empire bloodily to birth. Author Fox, young Englishman whose hobby is central Asian history and archeology, claims that this is "the only book upon the subject in English based on a study of original sources," but admits he has depended entirely on translations...
...Chinese cue was forced on the Chinese 292 years ago by their Manchu conquerors as a badge of subjection. Last December one of the last old-fashioned cues in the Orient, dangling from the head of the Inner Mongol leader, Prince Te,* Prince of West Sunit, bobbed in puppet subjection to gifts of Japanese cash & guns. The Prince declared Inner Mongolia independent of the Chinese Government at Nanking...
...leading a great rebellion against Prince Te. "My men are patriots," Yun trumpeted, "and absolutely opposed to Prince Te's pro-Japanese policy." This might have meant much or nothing, but one thing Premier Chiang read plainly between the lines of the telegram: There would be no Inner Mongol rebellion unless Nanking forked out some cash...
...Chinese name. His Mongol name is Dam-chukdangrub...
...Hsinking, but cooler-headed was the Japanese Government than the Government of Manchukuo. Japanese bluff & bluster has been loud during the years in which Bolsheviks have meekly put up with provoking frontier incidents, merely writing diplomatic notes which the Japanese Foreign Office sometimes answered, sometimes ignored. But with Soviet-Mongol forces actually showing fight last week Japanese War Minister Kawashima suddenly found it opportune to tell Tokyo reporters: " The Red Army of the Soviet Union is 1,300,000 strong and the Soviet Far Eastern Army amounts to 250,000- equal to the entire standing Army of Japan." Secretary...