Tf China were to enter into negotiations with Mongol princes and leaders in the right spirit, it would be a simple matter to prove to the world that the Soviet has virtually annexed Mongolia,, violating China's sovereign rights over this vast territory, and that 90 per cent. of the Mongol population resent the imposition of Bolshevik rulers and institutions upon Mon-
However anxious the Mongols are to get rid of the Reds they want pO more military occupation of the Anfw character. Autonomy under Chinese sovereignty without Chinese military garrisons is what they want and it is what the Chinese Government should offer them. Nothing would be more unwise on China's part than to organize a military expedition into Mongolia without first having made very definite pledges of autonomy to the Mongols. Such an_ understanding between China and the Mongol leaders, while it might not result in the immediate recovery of Mongolia from the Reds, would immediately reveal to the world that the "Mongols themselves were the enslaved victims of the Red Russian dictatorship and that the occupation of Mongolia by the Reds was nothing less than the theft of huge slice of Chinese territory, an act which the world cannot afford to tolerate.
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