Peiping, Aug. 7.
Things have been very dull here Peiping during thes hot summer days, and doubtless the chancelleries fand offices of military attaches in the embassies have been finding it as hard to procure material for their official reports as have we less imfaginative journalists for our weekly articles. What then was the joy in certain embassy here (Iwill call the Turanian Embassy) when a real live Mongol Prince made his appear} ance with a most interesting story. He hada warm Introduction. from the Consul in Tientsin who had met him many years ago in one of the southern provinces of China. "Speak-Ing Turanian fluently he introduced himself og Prince Chen, a powerful prince in Mongolia, who had studied In his youth at a Turanian university and was well acquainted with that wonderful country, and had now come to Peiping to renew his acquaintance with his Turanian friends.
is true that, in his foreign dress, looked strangely unlike a Mongol, but then nowadays with these westernized Orientals one can never be certain, Anyhow the story he had to reveal was a truly remarkable one, which made up for any deficiencies in his outward appearance. It was a ry that evoked bright visions of high polities" in Innermest Asia, not to mention vast possibilities Inthe way' of business in arms and motor-transport, Prince Chen explained that he was the ruler of a tribe in Outer Mongolia of. 450,000 people: in his more expensive moments he assessed its num: bers as high as one million, Curiously" enough, nobody seems to have asked him the name of this important {ribe, "But perhaps this was not entirely necessary, as the prince repeatedly pointed out its position with his thumb on a small-scale map of Mongolia.
The Prince was not satisfied with the "way things were moving in Outer Mongolia and his intention was to remove from Russian influence and emigrate to the Japanese sphere of Influence in Inner Mongolia, This was where the "high politics" came In But stil! more thrilling was the fact, that he had. several. thousand well-armed fighting-men at his dis posal, and one of the reasons why the had called on his Turantan friends was that he would require a military Instructor to train his men, and from his. experience he knew' that the Turanians were the best soldiers in the world. That could be very easily arranged, the Military Attache assured him, and promised to send a wire to Tyinglao fo an ex-oleer who would bbe {ust the right kind of person. But that was not all. For seeing a Turanian magazine lying on the table the prince picked it up and pointing fo an. advertisement, of a motor-cat said that this just the kind he had always favoured and that he would require large numbers of them, order to develop transportation facilities in Mongolia, He had large stocks of horses und furs in Kalgan hich he was arranging to sell order to procure the needful funds.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.