The Archive · 1903

Arming the Mongols

According to a Northern dis pat'? the Mongol Prince of Alatsin (who sed through Shanghai last spring, with hi two sons on a visit to Hongkong and Sing...ore and back to Peking again) has received instructions to mobilise every able-bodied Mongol of his tribe and league and organise and drill them in the modern fashion. For this purpose a number of Japanese officers have been engaged, while some two hundred of the Chinese military academy have re-sergeants as well as about thirty graduates ceived orders to start at once for aAlatsin. The Mongols of this League, consisting of a number of tribes, number over 30,000 fighting men.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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