Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-11-06
LIVING GOD IN 1911,
UNGERN BECOMES
monaghan CHIEF
Fate, Baron and Chinese
Revolution Plays Strange
Franks.
CREATED AN EMPEROR.
IS ELECTED PRESIDENT
All Official Documents Dated
as Eleventh Year of
Republic.

Especial Cable to Times Dispatch.
PEkiNG. Nov. 5.-Horu Living
God. created nm Emperor and now
eietcd President" Of n repubii--thc
Living buddha In his 1ibetan palace
at Crga, the capital city OF Mongolia.
may well wonder whether nc Is as
cendinE or descending the scnla o;
ne. II he happens to glance out
over the golden roof OK his palace 10
inc city tliat lies spread below h.
hnds three separate municipal gov
"rnWcn;s and. In addition. the arm.
"f occupation OF the Far Eastern re-
public. whose own tar.itory lies ~
the north. The Living I.uddha may
puzzle as to his Dwn present politica,
rthtns. but the political status OF his
domains Is {" puzzle likely TO make
Tue head swim of anyone who tries
To dcciphcr IT,
Away back in the days of the
danchu empire in China. really ms ia,
oacA as 1911, all was simple in Mon
SoIia. ami tho Living Butidha. who ia
also called the Hutukhtu. ruled from
10 prrciouS throne ns the Lord Of
mongolia. owning allegiance m his
sovereign, the Emperor. In Picking.
But in 1911 Young China decided 10
reVoiutc. and revoiutc she did. In
year or 80 the news had sprcsd IN
mongolia. and that province. nv rho
hikhta convention OF 1915, declared
ana received autonomy not unlike thar
OF one OF the domInions within tho
British empire.
Revolution Germ Sprend..
All was well, and everybody con.
unued 10 live happily until the germ
or revolution also reached Russia and
SIBERIA, which lies to the north ~
honEolia. The Russian reactionarics
and those men whom the world
chooses to call "Reda" batried bac,
aAo forth in Siberia Quite natural
~. some Of this battling" wac done
on inc SOL OF Mongolia. for when
naron onsern' or some other leader.
round mis- cause temporarily de-
.ieated, IT was easy to cross the Dor.
der line OF ncighboring power I'M
abie to drive him out
ana then this same Baron ungern
who has earned the title of '.Tbn
Bloody One" drove out the Chinese
who represented the Central PICKING
government I'm the Chinese dominion
and In It's place established the might, !.
empire OF Mongolia, taking the
lIntukbtu and placing him on tho
precious throne" with the consent.
he said, OF 'all princes and other in
fuential people"
Across the border line in the hear.
ot old Siberia the people established,
government and state which they
called tht Far Eastern Republic
With the Mongolian capita! Of ITrpa
rs his. base. The bloody One" waged
war against his Russian kinsmcn In
me Ear Eastern Republic, until
ilnally the Siberian troops crossed
into Mongolia. captured Baron
tngern and left an army of occupa-
tion there. although insisting that IL
would not interfere with the gov
eminent OF the MonGols.
Ungcrn Leaves Mark.
Baron CnGern was monarchist.
50 when he occupied Urga the Mon
Eols thought an empire, such as that
OF the Gar was the best form of
government. and established one. The
Ear Eastern Republic is republic.
SO with It's troops In possession OF
Lrga. the provisional peoples revo-
lutionary government Of Mongolia
which Is republic In form. came
into being. leaving the Hutukhtu on
the precious throne laying the