Peking, June 13.
In discussing political relations between prominent persons the Chinese are very prone to study and consider their personal—relations, which are usually unknown to foreigners and invariably overlooked by them. While a great wany foreigners have been suspecting that Chang Tso-lin and Ungern enjoyed each other's confidence, that Chang Tso-lin was party to the fall of Urga and that Ungern was interested in the restoration scheme, the Chinese have been taking it for granted because they knew that Ungern was married two years ago to a Manchu lady of high degree, formerly attached to the court and subsequently an intimate friend of Chang Tso-lin, It transpires that this lady enjoys a great deal of prestige among the Manchus and Mongols who are interested in the restoration, that she has brought her husband into the inner circle and that through her he has kept in close touch, during his various enterprises, with. Chang Tso-lin and the conservative Manchus and Mongols.
In the same way when it was recently announced that Prince Kalachin, of the Board of Tibetan and Mongolian Affairs, had offered to make peace between Peking and Outer Mongolia, there was a significance in it for the Chinese which very few foreigners grasped. Simionov has been living in Port Arthur enjoying intimate relations with Prince Ssu. Prince Ssu is a brother-in-law of Prince Kalachin. When Kalachin comes forward as a go-between the Chinese say to themselves, "Ah! Kalachin, Ssu, Simionov, Ungern, Chang Tso-lin!," following the chain of personal relations, and, throwing in a Japanese background for good measure, they reach an absolute conviction upon the state of things Mongolia. They require no other evidence to prove that there will be no Mongolian campaign nor do they need anything more to prove to their satisfaction that Chang Tso-lin will eventually walk into Mongolia, with the approval of the monarchists, and add_ the country to his personal fief, claiming much credit in Peking for the achievement.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.