Harbin, Jan, 31. The decision of the Chinese Government to open two new "'marts in Inner Eastern Mongolia to international trade indicates the fact that China intends to absorb these fich grasslands of the Mongols without further delay and thus add to the present area of the Three Eastern Provinces several thousands of new arable acres, Taonan, which lies on the For River, a tributary of the Nonni, which itself flows into the Sungari some thirty miles further south, has for a long time back been a trading mart between Chinese and Mongol. It is more of an overgrown village than a town, quite Chinese in appearance, for the population is principally Chinese, though, as in other border cities such as Changchun, Petuna, ete, the Mongol Lamas own a great deal of the real estate.
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