CHINA AND THE MONGOLS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1593, 9 November 1912, Page 5

CHINA AND THE MONGOLS.

. .... .■ „ __^ — . TROO3PS ADVANCING IN T® WEST. By ToieMaph—Press AfißpclatlonH3oDyifelit St. Petersburg, November- 1. The journal "Novoe Vremya'* states that Chinese at Kobdo, Western, Mon,-. golia,' have., been escorted; to Harbin by Gossacke, ana that meanwhile 6000 . Chinese are advancing to 6eize Kobdo, WARNING OFF RUSSIA:. The London "Daily Telegraph's" special correspondent at Peking, telegraphitig on: September 23> eaid-.-'I understand !that the new Minister for Foreign Affairs, Liang Meng-ting, has already settled with President Yuan Shi-kaj the main, lines of "the energetic action.which is to be taken, with Tegard to.Mongolia and Tibet. So. far as Russia is concerned, tho Chinese Government proposes— , " 1. To, discover at once by means of direct inquiries at St. Petersburg the exact Sums advanced to the Mongols under the nomenclature of loans, these amounts to be repaid by the Chinese Government, : . . ' 2. To file immediately tho strongest pro- ■ tests against the, clandestine entry of Russian detachments into Mongolia. 3. To make a great increase in the frontier garrisons, at Manehurift stations, and at other points. At the same time tejo- ; graphic instructions are to be sent to the governors and generals in Manchuria to moke reports; oh the precise number of Russian troops' stationed everywhere in the province.; i. To search out and confl&cate by every possible means all arms and munitions 1 to be found in Manchuria, Mongolia, and i Turkestan. '■ '