The Panchen Lama, according to the statements of his local re-pretentatives, is strongly opposed the movement, though others say that his influence is purely spiritual and that he exercises little influence 'According to the accounts of certain Mongols who have just returned from Pailingmiao' where they were present at the conference, the movement ts quite a serious one, "Sixty-five princes or their delegates attended, amongst them, {tC is worthy of note two representatives from Jehol.
Teh put forward a pro-for almost complete indepen. the sole exception of foreign which he is. will ing to leave to me Government of China, that is to say, a kind suzerainty. But what is more Ominous, were the seasons he gave for the movement.
After pointing out the fates that had overtaken Manchuria and 'Outer Mongolia, he argued that the game fate now' threatened Inner Mongolia, this time from China herself. "Under the Manchus not only had the rights and territories of the Mongol dukes and princes been respected, but they had also Fecelved allowances. These terms had been confirmed to them by the Republic, but had never been kept. And in recent years the Nationalist Tien-ying's emigration to the w in providing the authorities with Janother hard nut to At the time of Feng Vu-lis indepen dence movement in Charhar. General Sun Tien-ying with his dist Army, about $0,000 men, was a very une certain factor in the situation. "In order to keep him out of mischief, somebody in Nanking suggested allot: ting (o him, the vast empty spaces of Chinghat Province, for settle. ment by his men, The country. in. question, round the Kokonor, lies at an elevation of over 10.000 feet, and ft is quite urns ble for cultivation, and Chinghai was the control of avery truculent Mahommedan gentleman, called Ma Pu-fang. An entirely new title was Destowed on General Sun, that Director of Land Reclamation, and he was promised $500,000 for tra. welling expenses. No arrangements of any kind were made for the long trek of this horde of strange pi jeers, nor any orders for their peaceful passage, and above all no_money was forthcoming.
'Consequently trouble at once broke out and General Sun not lonly refused to depart, but showed signs of marching back to Peking, until, with much diffeulty, about half the promised sum was' collect Jed and handed over to him. 'Then slowly and with much bickering with the various "authorities Charhar and Suiyuan General Sun' {force made its way west, eating up the districts through which they passed like a flight of locusts.
Hip headquarters have at last reached Potow and his advanced guards Wuyuan on the left bank of the Yellow River, just about the north-west corner of the great bend.
General Ma Hung-kui man of Ninghsia, sent General Son message to say that he had re-Central and would jecived no. instructions from the oppose th At the same time General Ma sent Nanking and nown Mahommedan lea der Ma Fu-hsiang, is a both of General Ma Pu-fang, the General Ma Chunging all the trouble Sinkiang.
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