Changchun, Sept. 10.
Notwithstanding the reports that the Peking Government is sending representatives to treat with the Mongol Princes and that an amicable arrangement is simed at, there is a great deal of activity going on in Eastern Mongolia on the Eastern boundary. differ some giving the Mongol name whilst others give a Chinese name or an approach to it, it may not be out of place to give a rough idea of the geography of the actual country.
Accordingly to Richards, the total area of Mongolia is 1,300,000 miles with an average population of two inhabitants per square mile, The area is bigger than the eighteen provinces of China if you take away the areas of Szechuan and Yunnan. The warlike preparations are merely going on in a small area of not over 10,000 square miles 42° to 47° N, Lat. and 121° to 125° E. Long., which is the eastern boundary and where the Chinese population goes el teasing year by year, by whose means further land is taken up and cultivated and is thus gradually becoming Chinese. Certain authorities on China estimate that the Chinese boundary is being extended about four miles yearly. All this territory is a part of Inner Mongolia and it can be safely assumed that whatever happens it is only in Inner Mongolia that the trouble will take place. Outer Mongolia lies hundreds of miles distant and is practically inaccessible to the Chinese army.
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