Peiping, Mar. 23.
The tax collection dispute between the Mongolian Politics! Council and the Suiyuan Provincial Government took a disquietening turn to-day. Tt was learned that yesterday Mr. Pao Yueh-ching, the local representative of Prince Teh, sent a request to Gen. Ho Ying-ching, the Minister of War, to order the immediate withdrawal of Gen, Fu. Tso-yi's troops from the neighbourhood of Pallingmiao, "in. order to avoid the danger of an' open clash with the Mongol troops."
Prince Teh's Tel Peiping, Mar, 28, Unless the Suiyuan provinelai gov ernment desists from its refusal to obey the orders of the Central Gov= ernment and the Peiping Branch Military Council, there is a strong possibility of a civil war on the border of Mongolia and Suiyuan, Prince Teh, Secretary-General of the Mongol Autonomy Council, a sent a telegram to-day from, Pailingmiao to General Ho Ying-ching, acting chairman of the Peiping Military Council, saying that the Suiyuan authorities must be held responsible for any clashes which may occur between the Mongol and Suiyuan forces because of their proximity.
Prince Teh points out nat articles four and seven of the autonomy agreement guarantee the Mongols against the colonization of their terri tory by the Chinese and allocates a percentage of the taxes collected by the Suiyuan authorities on Mongol Innd already colonized, He goes on to state that the per= centage is not being paid and that Suiyuan, in de dance of the orders of the Nanking Government, has sent troops into. Mongol. territory "to prevent the Mongols from collecting taxes in their own territory.
The Suiyuan authorities. are reported to have refused to accept the compromise proposals made by Gen-feral Ho Ying-ching—Reuter,
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