Tyranny of China Denounced:
Urga under Red Control Claiming Freedom Peking, Sept. 24.
The Urga Government has sent a statement to the Chinese Government, through the Department of Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs, saying that China recently declared itself in favour of the policy self-determination. Mongolia agrees to this, and considers that it should apply to Mongolia.
This 1s thought to mean that Outer Mongolia wishes for more complete autonomy.
Sept. 25.
The following is a free translation of the telegram sent by the Urga Government to the President) of the Department of Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs at Peking:—
"We beg duly to acknowledge your document of March 28 from the Department of Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs of the Republic of China and to reply herewith.
"The Mongolian Republic has. always had the hope of seeing pending questions between China and Urga solved. The cause for delay has been attributed to the fact that foreign troops have been stationed in Mongolia, but it is actually due to China having been continually confronted with internal strife, while she as not indicated her true policy towards the Mongolian Republic.
"Now the Chinese Government is insisting on tocratie tende ing the Mongolian Government to cancel its autonomy by armed force. On March G we announced to all the princes and nobles of the tribes of Inner Mongolia the condition of under the tyranny of Your Honourable Department may have seen this, so there! is no need to re-state what was then said.
"The Mongolian Government! earnestly hopes that China will cease her interval strife and free herself from foreign aggression and then carry out' real political reforms for the sake of her 400,- 000,000 people. The principle of
observed by China, determination must be!
"If the Chinese Government should issue a mandate declaring itself in favour of self-determination, the Mongolian Government would instantly despatch a plenipotentiary to Peking to discuss fundamental schemes which would benefit both the Mongolian and Chinese peoples.
"We beg for a reply."—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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