Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-09 | Page 20 | Ancient Stronghold, Where Tartar Tribes Lived, Again Makes Trouble for Chinese

1 ANCIENT STRONGHOLD, WHERE I ! TARTAR TRIBES LIVED, AGAIN I MAKES TROUBLE FOR CHINESE Mongolia, Territory of Asia Which Had So Much Infhience on Early Civilization Does Not Possess One Railroad PEKING, .T u 1 f Afonri.M a atrongliold of 'Tartar tribes long before Genghis Khan, Ivil.lai Khan and their descendants an i-ed i-ed Europe and extended their dominion throughout Asia in the thirteen thir-teen ' ''l"ry. i? again giving rhina trouble. I'nder Hutukhtu, a spiritual leader win. elairos 10 l- a living Bndriha, the 2,000,000 Mongolian people, who declared theii independence inde-pendence of China proper more than a year a. have entered into an alliance with soviet Russia Busslan soldiers now police I rpa, the capital, and Russian advisers are aid t. dominate Hutukhtu with the result that titles to all property hehl b) foreigners have been annulled an,d I thirty year leases given instead. The j titles held by foreigners havo been taken out of Mongolia for safety but ;in th- meantime the Mongolian kov-, kov-, ernment ha? bejrun to exac t rem payments pay-ments under 'he leaaan PROTKST IS SK.Ni". So far the Chinese government has i n unable, because of emergent no.ircr horn", to send an expedition to overthrow the Independent government, govern-ment, but b protest has been sent to Moscow Tho Far Kastern Republic at Chita, Siberia, also has re Ognlsed Hutukhiu's rule. Mongolia whloh stretches cros northern China Is without a railroad in any part of Its 1,170,000 sq iare imllcs Trga s only telegraphic oin-i oin-i munlcatlon la with Chita, a line to ' 1'eklng having been destroyed. The I trip from Peking to I'rga is five days 'bv automobile Wool, furs, and hides form tho chief Mongolian Industries. OJS'OE FAMOUS LAND Whether China will ever bo sufficiently suffi-ciently strong to regain MongdMa If the subject of discussion In the Chl-Jneso Chl-Jneso presa. "Aa usual China is the Immediate and Innocent sufferer, " says I the Peking North China Standard a '.Japanese owned newspaper published ;ln Emgllsh. "It Is not to be expected 'that the other powers Interested in j Mongolia will take the blow lying 'down and without protesting Mongolia Mon-golia being still regarded as a part of China by all nations excopt 8ovit ! Russia, China will be presented with another bill for damages done and sh will either have to recognize It land pay. or refuse responsibility and !tt the same time admit the absolute I Independence of Mongolia-No Mongolia-No part f Asia, had more Influence on early civilization than Mongolia. The Hun Empire ws.s supreme In Mongolia Mon-golia In tho third to first contur B C. In 136 Kublai Khan, a nephew of Genghis, made Peking his capital. By that time the Mongol Empire m-i m-i braced the whole of Central Asia, th'1 'Caucasus, Russia, Persia. Armenia and Ithe realma of tho caliphs of Bagdad Genghla Kan is held to be the pioneer in tho gTeat Mongolian raids. He Is de-iscribod de-iscribod In Chinese histories as "per-ihaps "per-ihaps the ablest administrator organlz-er organlz-er and captain ever known."