That part of the Peking Goveznment which is subservient to Chang Tso-lin does not want to take back and there will be no relief ex pedition so long as Chang has influence in the capital; Ungern is not going to stay there. He is going to use Urga as a base for an attack upon Kiachta and when he has evacuated, Outer Mongolia will come under the direct control of Chang Tso-lin. All this was settled at the conference between Chang and Simionov's officers in Mukden before the final attack and at the conference of the "White Guard" leaders in [Peking just subsequent to the collapse of the Chinese de fence. The Russian leaders represented at this latter conference by delegates were Simionov, Ungern, Annenkoff and The chairman of the.convention was Hreshatytzky. who was a ed two days ago by the Chinese police at the instigation of friends of the Chinese leaders defeated in Urga when he was about to leave Peking. At their meetings it was decided that after the fall of a general movement into. Siberia should be made in the Tobolsk. Kinchta and Vladivostok areas The Kiachta expedition was to have been conducted by Ungern and the troops which he commands in Urga. Such a move is now anticipated since an anti-Soviet campaign has already commenced iv the Tobolsk district according to schedule.
Precisely what happened when Urga fell is not yet known to the public here, but refugees who have reached Maimaicheng have wired that the soldiery, cut off on the south and east. and ignorant of what awaited them on the west, fled northward after losing fully 50 per cent. of their numbers. Many came into Maimaicheng, but there is still a considerable body in the vicinity of a place called Haoti, north of Urga. Through some channel, word has recently come in that the foreigners in Urga, whose fate has been the subject of much concern here, did not leave with the tide of Chinese and Russian refugees, but remained and were unhurt.
Cuane Tso-tin AND THE JAPANESE.
To return to Chang Tso-lin—his assumption of full responsibility for the protection of Urga and nis subsequent indifference to the fate of the Chinese community and garrison there were the subject of suspicious comment among ihe Chinese here before the stories of his prospective monarchy movement were so generally propagated and before his conferences with the Simionov agents in Mukden commenced. The assistance which he gave the Japanese in their attempted extermination of the Koreans in the Chientao district prompted many prominent Chinese, _including Wu Pei-fu's military following, to suspect that he was a party to tHe Japanese plans for converting
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