CHINA BREAKING UP
MONGOLIA DECLARES ITS INDEPENDENCE. By Telesrapli—Pros3 Aesociation-CoDsrislil (Roc. Juno 3, 7.5 p.m.) " s Peking, Juno 2. , Mongolia has' notified the Ministers of the Powers of its independence of China, and requests that Consuls should bo sent, to L'rga, the capital, in order to negotiate treaties of peaco and friendship. Mongolia (area 1,367,600 sq'.iaro miles papulation 2,000,000) lies between Manchuria ami Chinese Turkestan, ami is bounded on the north by Sibsria. It includes tho desert of Gobi, and is inhabited by nomadic Mongols and Kalmucks. The chief town is Urga, which the Russian Orovermnent proposes to connect with the Siberian Railway. In 1912 the Mongolian princes declared for independence.. By a Kusso-Mongolian Agreement concluded in November last, tho Russian Government undertook to assist Mongolia to maintain (me autonomous regime she had established. An agreement was come to between tho Russian and Chineso Governments, by which Russia recognised Chines suzerainty, while China agreed to recogniso the autonomy of Mongolia and to refrain from colonisation or military occupation.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2167, 4 June 1914, Page 5
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168CHINA BREAKING UP Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2167, 4 June 1914, Page 5
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