Ina general way the whole Mongol frontier is in a bad way because of unchecked banditry which dates from the break-up of Wu Poi-fu's Shanhaikuan campaign in the 'Autumn of 1924, or, if you like, from the earlier Red' occupation of Urga and the interruption of free Chinese traffic with Outer Mongolia. Commerce end the consequent colonization of this frontier are founded primarily upon trafic. in ibecan and Mongolian products. Were such trafic normal, community fes like Kalgan, Fengehen, Kucihua cheng und Paotouchen would be independent of the local. production of grain and other foodstuffs, With communications open their profits upon the inward movement of animal Products and the outward movement of tea, silk and such ornamental rifles as Mongols and Tibetans buy, would enable them to import grain land other foods irrespective of the local crops. Within the past decade, however, agriculture has developed around these frontier trading towns to such an extent that—trade being normal, banditry in check, and crops up the sverage—they have been not frontier markets for Mongolian, Tibetan and Kaneu prod-nets, but crain exchanges exporting instead of importing, essential food stuffs. This was made possible by the extension of the Suiyuan railway' and by 0 \lerreasonabi of Wu Pei-with Red funds were being raised in America, seemingly the "approval th Minister to the notify. the Nanki the conditions (as outlined above) under which America agreed to arse relief and that active opera-United States should] commence when Mr. Alfred Sze had received by return despatch Nat King's neceptance of these condi-ions. The reply to this was that Mr. Alfred Sve would rather not; he! thought it would he much nicer the American committee in China transmitted its conditions to Nanking through some such median as the International Famine Relief A: sociation. "The local American committee quite rightly baulked.
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