THE HOME-COMING OF GENGHIZ KHAN

Evening Star, Issue 23375, 19 September 1939, Page 2

THE HOME-COMING OF GENGHIZ KHAN

Genghis Khan, Asia’s mightiest conqueror, who fought his way into Eastern Europe in the thirteenth century, has come back to China, says a message from Yulin, North Shensi, to the American Press on June 18. The silver casketed dust of the Mongol Emperor, whose hordes stormed through this pass in the Great Wall seven centuries ago to subjugate North China, was borne back yesterday and he was hailed as a national hero.

It was war such as the groat Genghiz waged throughout most of his life that had disturbed his last resting place. The casket was removed from its tomb at Etshinburo, Mongolia, to prevent its seizure by the Japanese or its use to further the organisation of a Japanese-sponsored Mongolian State opposed to China. Representatives of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Chungking Government paid homage to the longdead emperor as his remains were carried through the Great Wall Pass by a mounted procession of Chinese officials, Mongol dignitaries, and Buddhist Lamas winding between long lines of Chinese citizens waving flags and exploding fire crackers. The silver casket is to be taken to a secretly-prepared mausoleum somewhere in westernmost China.

Genghiz Khan launched the Mongol conquest by subjugating North China and Manchuria, then driving southward to the banks of the Indus. His hordes swept as far as Eastern Europe laying waste everything before them until the emperor boasted that he could ride “ over the sites of captured cities without meeting any obstacle largo enough to make my horse stumble.”

Genghiz Khan’s conquests were con-

solidated in Asia by bis successors, notably Kublai Khan, who became Emperor of China, with his capital at Poking. But Gougbiz, who died ill 122/, is revered as the greatest Mongol hero, and bis Etsbinliuro tomb is their central shrine.