According Yo other foreign travellers recently returned from Suiyuan and Inner Mongolia, everything is quite peaceful in the towns along the Suiyuan railway and on the Mongolian plateau to the north, The greater part of the Kwangtung Army forces have been withdrawn to Manchoukuo, and only the towns along the railway are garrisoned by a few hundred Japanese troops. The rail way which could be cut so easily is held by shoestrings, so to say, and the Japanese themselves adm t that they would not be able to take such risks against any other enam; but the Chinese, The country is held by Mongol cavalry with a stiffening of Manchoukuo troops, Despite all the talk of Japane schemes to cut off China complete from Soviet influence on the north. heir control does no: extend one mile outside Potow, the terminus of the railway, And even there they are subject to constant alarms, the city gates being closed for days on end while Saratsi which lies to the south of the railway between Kueihua and Potow is reported to have been r occupied by Red forces, These lotte: have their headquarters at Hochü to the southeast, on the Yellow River.
Wuyuan, west of Potow, and north of the great bend in the Yellow River. is held by Ma Chung-ying with a force of about 10.000 Mohammedans Ma was formerly in constant rebellion against the Sinkiang authorities. until he was finally defeated and had to seek refuge in Russia. He now appears to have joined hands again with ihe Chinese Government Another old friend to be found in these parts s Ma Chan-shan, of Manchurian fame. He holds the Ordos country, south of the Yellow River bend, with an indeterminate body of mounted troops, Although these various Chinese forces are at present incapable of taking the offensive owing to the usual lack of ce-operation and to the lack of proper armament, nevertheless their presence in those regions has prevented t Mongol princes of the Ordos country and of Western Mongolia from joi the recently established Inner Mongolian Republic.
Altogether, the Japanese hold those parts seems to: be very much less secure than one had been led latter. to expect.
Except for a few ambitious princes, the bulk of Mongol opinion appears to be openly hostile to the Japanese, They were quite prepared ie avail themselves of Japanese asistence in order to obtain their independence from China, but any demands on their loyalty beyond that might lead to serious trouble.
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