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Mystery of Outer Mongolia Reports of serious fighting along the remote frontier of Manchukuo and Mongolia have focused attention on the inaccessible land of the Mongolian Republic, says the Manchester Guardian. For the past fifteen years the world has been allowed to learn little of a country that has changed from feudalism to a strange mixture of capitalism and State Socialism. Much of the mystery surrounding developments in Outer Mongolia has been deliberately intended by the Russians, for it has suited Soviet political and military quarters to be able to carry on their task of “assisting” the backward Mongols wfikout having to be concerned with the prying eyes of other foreign nationals. Therefore Outer Mongolia has been virtually closed to foreign visitors, at least to those from non-Chinese lands, for many years now. Soviet Russians were, of course, sent in numbers; indeed, to be to Mongolia became the kind of goal for adventurous Soviet spirits as were the colonies for English youths. For most of them a trip to Mongolia would be as near to going abroad as any of them could ever for.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20906, 11 September 1939, Page 6
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188TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20906, 11 September 1939, Page 6
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