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Outer Mongolia and Inner Mongolia are two seminomadic lands of indefinite status, lying north of China proper and adjoining Manchuria. Last week a whooping pack of Outer Mongolian cavalry swooped into Manchuria and cut the Chinese Eastern Railway at Khailar, near Barin, where four U. S. citizens reside...
Observers feared lest this local engagement prove part of a Soviet project to coerce the chieftains of Inner Mongolia and North Eastern Manchuria into federating themselves with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics ("Russia...
...Timber resources approximate 55,000,000 cords. Its mills can turn out 650,000 tons of newsprint yearly. Should Abitibi merge with International Paper, the resulting company would in effect dominate the world's newsprint production, would be one of the major power units of North America...
...important conclusions: 1) That titanotheres, large horned quadrupeds which became extinct in America in the early Oligocene period (geologically fairly recent), lasted for a much longer period in Mongolia; 2) That mastodons were, in the same period, en their way from Africa to Western Europe, Siberia and North America...
Died. George Brenton McClellan Harvey, 64, editor since 1899 of The North American Review, and of the defunct Harvey's Weekly; "discoverer" of Woodrow Wilson, 1912; supporter of Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1920; Ambassador to Great Britain, 1921-23; of heart disease; in Dublin...