The Calumet news., 1914-04-21
ONCE POWERFUL
RACE NOW WEAK
MongoI Empire Is Subjected by
Russia, Japan and China

New York. April 2l.-The Asiatie
Institute of this city has made publ,
the first of a series of reports from
W. W. RockhH. former United States
minister To china. and more recently
ambassador To Russia and later To
Turkey. on the situation in MONGOLIA.
I'm behalf of the Asiatic Institute Mr..
Rockhill recently penetrated the reg
ions where the once powerful Mongol
race has been trying to maintain its
independence from the new Republic
Of China.
The last limits and boundaries of
this race. which seven centuries ago
conquered nearly the whole of ASIA
and part of Europe have begun To dis
appear, says AIR, Rockhill, in the Cruz
cible formed by Japan and China on
the one side and Russia on the other.
The naive, gullible descendants of the
Muugul Conquerers are no match for
the cauny Chinese trader from the
south and the mperially escorted
Russian manufactures from the north,
who have undermined and transformed
all Of this country's relations and con-
ditions.
Seven hundred thousand rather dun
people is the existing remnant of the
Mungol Empire" he says. The BuriIt
Mongols. believed To he Of the same
tribe as Genghis Khan, that great con-
querer. who left To- his sons in 1927
an empire which stretched from the
china Sea 10 the Dnicper. are under
Russian domain in Southern Siberia,
the birthplace of Genghis Khan, bat
the land Of the Tartar nation that WAS
his, is that included in the outer Mon
sola, which declared independence
from China during the revolutionary
rebellion in china i'm 1912. II is
known as the land Of the Khalkas.
This newly created state defines the
spot where all that remains of ancient
Tartary is To- survive or perish, says
Mr.. Rockhill. Here is all that is left
IF perhaps the most wonderful empire
IF all time, that erected on horeback
by Genghis Khan.
May Become Buffer State"
outer Mongolia's aspiration to stand
alone is altogether dependent on the
adjoining powers. says Mr.. Rockhill.
They know their helplessness, and
hat for the present their fate is seal
.d." In his opinion the Mongol nation
Will founder completely without the
of Russia and China. It,
,,I hon. .xfgt,n.. i. I'm,
buffer state" and becoming the head
# that necklace Of smaller unadvanc-
"a vassal nations bordering the pres
'nt-day great .Nsiatic empires. AS
such, if it succeeds. he says, it will be
Is a damp course between the pow
Ter magazines of Russia, Japan ana
'hina
Except for the use of things
brought them by the Chinese, with
mt whom they would go unclad and
originally known To us in the middle of
he thirteenth century" he adds.
outer Mongolia's assets with which
% begin modern statehood are small.
/ has one gold mine Ia tax and as
'hicf trade is through Russian Kiach-
"a on the northern boundary where
Exports in 1871 were valued at 81
100000, imports from Russia at $Gl5,-
700 and from China $l,4S5.0OO. The
'nly other trade mentioned is that of
81 100000 material through Kobdo mi
hc west. This is the MOngol Empire
status I'm the scale of the moderns.
This is the first expedition of travel
md investigation i'm his particular
ield of Middle and East Asia which
Mr.. Rockhill has embarked on since
MS expedition into Tibet when he dis
'overed tho great geographical fea-
ures of the region east of Lhasa and
he existence Of. until then, unknown
Islam colonies.