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...rest of the world was concerned, for the past six weeks the war between the Japanese and Russians on the border between Outer Mongolia and Manchukuo has been fought by the official Japanese and Russian "news" agencies. The Soviet news bureau, for example, killed 800 Japanese and shot down 45 planes in a four-day battle. The Japanese official releases retaliated by wrecking 100 Russian tanks, shooting down 53 planes. How much of all this was fact or fiction no one knew, for there was no accredited neutral correspondent within days of the trouble-spot. Only the Japanese wounded jamming...
Strategy. The region where the Japanese and Soviet Mongols are fighting is known to contain coal and quite possibly oil. Furthermore, no one knows for certain where that part of the border between Outer Mongolia and Manchukuo is. More important than these potential causes of the conflict, however, is the fact that the Lake Bor district lies directly across the probable line of march of a Japanese invasion into central Siberia, and on the left flank of a Russian attack on the Japanese positions in North China. Control of Outer Mongolia may be the decisive factor in a future Russo...
Modern Mongols. To secure its vital flank, the Soviet Union in 1922-24 helped the herdsmen of Outer Mongolia drive out their ruling princes and establish the Mongolian People's Republic with a population of 800,000 and an area of one million square miles, almost one-third as large as all Canada. Under Russian tutelage the Mongol revolutionaries have attempted to transform into a semi-modern state a nation whose citizens were nomads with a way of life unchanged in a thousand years. The descendants of Ghengis Khan's warriors have been taught to drive tanks...
This much about the skirmishing is authenticated: Outer Mongolia is a backdoor, not only to China, but to Russian Siberia. If and when the Japanese and Russians decide to fight for keeps, the barren Mongolian plateau will see its biggest battles since the days of Ghengis Khan. In preparation for that day, Russia has declared a virtual protectorate over the Mongol Peoples' Republic, raised a Mongol Army of 250,000 and equipped it with modern military gadgets-artillery, tanks, machine guns, righting planes. The Mongol Army's greatest accomplishment has been to keep some 350,000 of Japan...
...20th Century, peering through his microscope at the eggs of little marine animals called sea squirts (a diagram of a sea squirt egg appears beside him on TIME'S cover), Dr. Conklin upset this notion. He found differentiated tissue regions which later gave rise to the outer skin, the middle skin, the inner skin and the main trunk of the nervous system-carried the origin of organs all the wayback...