Trouble is now threatening from three causes. The Pailingmiso Council had established tax-stations along! the southern frontiers of Suiyuan, province. In the ordinary course of! Events the Chinese authorities would not have greatly worried about this. But what has roused their particular: fre is that these tax-stations have insisted on levying transit-duty on the large caravans of camels that pass through Mongol territory bringing. down opium from Kansu, and have even conflzcated such cargoes, when they refused to pay the tax. In con sequence, the Suiyuan authorities have demanded the abolition of these tax-stations, In order to enforce their demand, they have been pushing, troops northwards into Inner Mongo la, until there are about 2,000 of them encircling Pailingmiao at great distance. The meeting delegates of Inner Mongolia that had been called for March 5 at Pale Hngmiao has been cancelled for the present.
'The Mongol Autonomous government is now demanding the immediate withdrawd of all Chinese " troops: from their territory and at the same: time the recognition of their absolute right to levy' what taxes they like. 'Another demand of theirs—probably' the most awkward of the three—is for the immediate release of Han} Feng-lin, a Mongol official, who was taken from his house here in Peiping last September and has not been heard of since. The Mongols have all ug insisted that he was carried off by special political police; and certainly all the evidence points in that direction. "There has been a vast correspondence and exchange of tele-rams about this case between the Mongols and Nanking which was allayed for a time, when General Chiang Kai-shek during his visit to Suiyuan is said to have given the Mongol leaders the assurance Han vould be "found" within month.
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