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Show SIBERIA HOME OF MANY TRIBE OF MONGOLIANS OMSK. Liberia, Feb. 12. (Corrcs- MP--' londenex- of the Associated Proas) 'Wffi' llbeHa, which has forced world ai -' K" ontion hy reason of tho important po- Itiral events there, includes all tho ESt vslatie possessions of Russia with the BP 'xception of the trans -Caspian xml Wtj&:: rans-Caucasian regions and tho gov K' irnment general of Turkestan whose !F; - H capital, Tashkent, was captured by the I Bolsheviki and whose American vice- sL- ronsul. Roser C. Tredwoll. was arresi - m- d anrl left to languish in prison. r". Since the Mongolian invasions in the e thirteenth century, Siberia has been B the home of many tribes, descended K from that race. To the foreigner th Tartars are perhaps the most inter Bi I esting. Their great center in Kazan H I though the National Tartar Council P which like Ukraine and other repion. je' of Russia, seeks the developments nf & its "national aspirations," Is now lo- cated at Petropavlovsk, not far from IE Omsk. This is on account of Bolshe- & vik teirorlsm. M,; I The Tartars are tni followprni or Mabpmel and their mosques ajjs found w.- in almost every city. They are esti- K' mated to number 1,600,000 in the dls jirl. tricts of Kazan and Crimea. They are keen seekers after education and many fgf- Tartar boys and girls receive lessons ; in French. English and German from R foreign Instructors In places like Ka Jgr zan, Samara and UL. The lost two jc of those places were occupied several wL-'. months ago by the Bolshevik armies W The Tartars' have an oval face, black ff, eyes, placed obliquely, and their skin K is brown. Their costume is uncsual, W the distinguishing feature being their r coiffure over which Is worn a tight t fitting calotte, or skull cap. Br A considerable number of Tartars J live in the Altai mountains on the J frontier of China. They are still no- ft I mads and given over lo idolatry. fl Many of them worship the sun. ft I The people of the Mongolian race B. inhabiting Russia, either European or Jt ' Siberian, should be generally divided St into groups. The Finnish group in- W. elude- Finns, Esthonians, Mordva and f Choremises. The Tartar group is composed of Tartars, and smaller tn !E bal peoples. An important nomadic Mongolian tribe is the Kirghls who live in the L j steppe regions of Akmollnsk and Sem- w lipalatinsk. They aggregate more than r 1 million of both sexes, speak a Tur- l' klsh dialect and are devout mussul- K man-. Tie-;, ,lte hi.-tlv rattle raiser IV' The lakou's inhabit the region of Irkutsk, near Lake Baikal, and speak r a language principally Turkish but p. I partly Mongolian. They are idolatrous v jand live by the hunt and by the rais- p ing of In the province of Tobolsk, and fl generally in the north, even up lo th Arctic ocean, are found the Voguh k and the Ostiacks They descend from H anrien' Finni-.h branch. Although in - principle converted to Christianity, E'i thej have no r.-al idea of the Chris- .H tian religion and, as in ancient times. fl practice Chamanism, the religion 01 B . their ancestors. Still other tribes are the Teleouts on the plateaus of the Altais, the Burials in (ho trans Bar- Ikal district, the Manchus in the Amur. . and the Samoedes on the Arctic bor-ders bor-ders where they engage in the raising of r i n I . fl In the i.irce (ities like Harbin, Irk- H utsk and Omsk Americans are struck by the large number of Burials and'' j' Tartars who are drivers of publi' H droskies. They seem lo speak 5athe H Russian language inditferently and I apparently hardly know the street- I and different quarters of the clty.'They I are distinctly Mongolian in type and -Ihave flat npses. The present population of Siberia Ki 1 : estimated at ten million, as against a . total Russian population of pcrhai' r 1 lS11.OeO.110O lc.-pife the numeroul II and tribes mentioned above, the j. population of Siberia Is mainly Rus- I slan, formed of peasants who migrat- I Sd from European Russia when Si- I I beria was reconquered and to some extent of the descendants of the un- fl happy people who were exiled to the B frigid zone for political conspiracies fl I and ci injes. I |