| Show MONGOLIA ba russ a KO H JAPANESE JAP RUSSIAN THE FAR EAST TODAY map showing japanese russian and chinese status in the orient reveals strategic importance of outer and inner mongolia in japans campaign to create a wall between siberia from china proper tokyo hopes to extend this wall far back into central asia boundary marked with crosses shows probable frontiers in the predicted russo jap war were separated the first going to russia and pie latter latte r to china out er Mongolia has about peo pie inner has and almost of them live in japanese Manchu kuo As with such european peoples as the ukrainians the desire for or national unification has clung with mongolians Mongo lians throughout the ages whether this desire still persists in japanese propagandizing izing for or a united mongolia is satisfactorily furthering desires prince teh the sincere puppet ruler who now holds sway over inner mongolia was promised every assistance in br bringing dussias Rus sias outer mongolians Mongo lians into the newly organized united league of mongolia what the japs failed to tell their new friends is that their primary purpose is to russia not to help the mongolians Mongo lians ar reports from moscow indicate the soviet is not unaware of japans intentions intention tent ions one Guen doun president of the outer mongolian peoples republic is now a guest of the russian secret police during an effort to discover who was behind a plot to turn the country over to the japanese lost last year until recently outer mongolia was one of asias greatest mysteries it had no railroads no important cities and no highways but a small inland railroad has now been built and by the end of next summer it will be lengthened to join with the long trans siberian railroad japan looks Ve westward stward foreign military experts think japans expansion program I 1 is s foolhardy until the chinese war is finished because the nation is already exhausted financially and weary ol 01 fighting but this does not concern the japs who boldly outline their dream of expanding westward from inner mongolia into the deep interior of asia this would end with can conquest of chinas cainas newest province Sin kiang here they would run against tartars Tar tars turks mongols and edans all strongly influence enad d V by the soviet but it would mean throwing up a barrier between russia and the 1 Chin chinese esp cutting oft off aid from siberia today the sharp tongued japs are rasping along a vast frontier at the russian bear bead which lies silent and waiting occasionally lifting its paw in a tentative slap at the impolite invader this strange attitude bothers the japs who met with fierce opposition on hill last summer but have heard little more since the probability is that russia is content to wait until japan sticks her imperialistic neck out i a bit too far then the ax may mi fall bli or miss Q B western newspaper union |
