Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-11-07 | Page 2 | Americans to Rescue Friends

lEPiGlllilS TO RESCUE FRIENDS I wo Countrymen Caught in Ees'cgeci City of Mongolia Mon-golia 18H1NOTQN, Nov. ii -Americans ir. Peking have launched a miniature expedition In behalf of two of their codhtrymen caucht In the fighting fjrga, apltal of outer Mongolia, the state department was advised today. They haw mustered twelve Americans armed, and provided with motor con-vy, con-vy, and appealed to the American legation le-gation to obtain permission from thr Chinese government for the cxpe lltion t mow on the town which has been attacked by Russians, Bureats and Mongols. Peporls h.ivo reached Pel-Ing from within the walls of I rga that the defending de-fending ('hints'- r.dler wore demoralized demoral-ized and had begun looting the homes of Russian residents. Tho American legation, the department's depart-ment's advice suld hns maiic urgent ropresentntlorjs fo the Chinese government govern-ment that every protection possible be .i f forded. Although the legall n reported th.-situation th.-situation in Urga, as serlOUS and that the foreign residtfnts were in Imminent Immin-ent danger, ohlj two Amertoans were mentioned. Thetjg names were i.'i n is Mil la an engineer, nnd McLaughlin, McLaugh-lin, an employe of the Mongolian Trading c'ompanv. Pi reeue mis slon was descrll ed as being rvde up of frlon1s of the tWO men. T have plannerl to base their operations on Kalg.in, northeast of Poking, on the Great Wall nf China and on the southern south-ern edge of Mongolia