Anyhow, a well-armed and dis~ ciplined force, no matter how small, the deciding fader in the political situation in Toner Mongolia in these days, And that is what the hundred odd Manchoukuo troops of Li Shou-hsin represent who are now stationed here under two Japanese officers, calling themselves the "Second Army'
Inner Mongolia." Cut off by a small Stream from the other two cities lies the Tamshackle trading town, a col-ection of about fty mud houses, that could scarcely be reckoned large-size village in China Proper. Tt is said to contain 500 inhabitants of whom 200 Chinese. An interesting feature was a compromise form of architecture between the tent of the nomads and the mud house of the Chinese: mud dwellings but built in the elreular form and which the low' entrances of the Mongol yurts.
On the slopes at the back of the town an American missionary. doctor and his wife live in three yurts, ministering to the ills of the Mongols. The use of the plural here is almost Superfluous as there seems to be only one form of illness in Mongol syphilis to wit, with which the population seems to be riddled, from prince to shepherd, men and women, young and old. It is a very serious social problem, And one of the causes for the prevalence of this disease {s, was told, the Independent and free fand easy altitude of Mongo! womenfolk in their love affairs.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.