IMPENDING STRUGGLE IN MONGOLIA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 883, 1 August 1910, Page 7

IMPENDING STRUGGLE IN MONGOLIA.

_This is evidently a counter-move to the Russo-Japanese agreement of the treaty, the "Frankfurter Zcitung" recently said: "The agreement between Russia and Japan, which is now slated to have been officially _ confirmed from St. Petersburg also, is just becoming known in the Russian towns of" tho Far East. Its object is a oloser solidarity in the proceedings of the two Powers towards China, and especially mutual diplomatic support is g ending Russo-Chincse' and Japanohinese questions'in Manchuria, as well as, for the first time, 'Mongolia. 'It is characteristic that the important news was spread first out here by the Japanese newspapers, which describe tho new agreement with satisfaction as a success for Japanese.. diplomacy, with tho point directed against the .United States." It is to be expected adds the "Frankfurter Zeitung" correspondent, that "the express mention which Mongolia also receives' in the new understanding mil direct attention more than ever before to events in that region," after Tibet, the least known part of Asia. "Its huge extent, its inaccessibility, which is, however, much exaggerated, the character of its nomadic inhabitants, and the comparative independence of its princes, who are only nominally tributary .-to' the yellow Emperor, whose national pride is well'known,' have made it for a long time the theatre of the most diverse political aspirations." Recently sharp opposition between Russian and Chinese interests has appeared all over Mongolia. "Acting very quietly the Russian Government ordered important improvements in the commercial highways, which lead, both in the West and the North, to the Mongolian frontier. If, in spite of that, the sales of the Siberian merohants who trade in Northern Mongolia have shown no increase in recent years, but a diminution, the fault lies, partly with tho' competition of the Chinese <and the : opposition 01, the Chinese officials in those regions, but still more with the very faulty knowledge tho Russians have' of tho relations cf tho country away from the gieat trade i-outes.