The Archive · 1940

Japanese Controlling Mongol Government

Chungking, Feb. 23.

The Japanese-sponsored Mongolian United Autonomous Government. comprising Chahar, Suiyuan and Northern Shansi at present has its capital at Kalgan, with Prince Teh as chairman, according to a Chinese dispatch received here from Suiyuan.

The government is reported to be under the direct control of the Japanese Kwantung Army, which is also responsible for garrisoning the district.

The finance of the government is controlled by the Mongolian Bank, whose notes are known in Mongolia as "camel notes The Peiping-Suiyuan railway has been placed under the management of the Japanese-controlled North China Railway Company.

All Chinese newspapers in the area controlled by the government have been suspended and the Japanese have organized the Mongolian Ne Agency, with a Japanese as president. The agency is at present running four newspapers—in Kalgan, Tatung, Suiyuan city and Hsuanhua—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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