Seward daily gateway., 1923-06-16
MISSING HISTORY OF MONCOL|ANOW
 BEING UNEARTHED AGE-oLD SECRETS OF RUsSIA's BURIED TONES ARE BEING
 BARED
WAS CAPITAL AT 0NE TIME
What World conquering People May Have Done May Soon be
 Revealed

WASHINGTON. D. C., June 12- Dispatches from Moscow tell of inn portant archaeological finds among "Russia's buried tombs," in the an cient ruined capital of Mongolia, Khar akohoto.
 The claim to the region by Russia and the apparent fact that it is at least sufficiently under Russian con trol to make scientific work possible by Russian archaeologists is interest ing because the site of KSarakhoto is little more than a stones throw from Peking, in a region long under Chinese dominance.
 A bulletin from the Washington, D. C. headquarters of the National Geo. graphic Society tells of the Mongols and their land.
 Capital in Unknown Era.
 "Kharakhoto was the seat of Mon- gol power during the early period of their history which hitherto has been practically unknown says the bulle- tin.
 pie may have been and done in the dim past has been observed, in fact, by their strange boiling over" in the thirteenth centuary when Genghiz Khan with his cruel, invincible, hard fighting roughriders from their half barren plains, suddenly became the scourge of East and West alike, and came much closer to conquering the world than ever Alexander had done
 Coming into prominence for only a brief moment in the long period of his tory, these people became masters of China, Korea, Indo-China and Burma in the East, and practically all of Asia west and south of their steppes, and even extended their conquests through Russia into the heart of Poland and Hungary.
 "Kubalia Khan, one of Genghizs early successors, who made Picking the Chinese capital and sat there or the Dragon throne, probably ruled over greater territory than any man had done before or since. But once out of the saddle-where they were more expert and more at home than even the Cossack or American Indian-the Mongols lost their power and after a century their tremendous empire was only a memory So dramatic was this sudden rise and fall of the Mon gols that it and the somewhat drab period since have gone for Mongol history, and there has been little in- terest in what proceeded their brief excursion into world domain. Records if they can be dug from Kharakhoto, therefore, will fill out period of his IOIy uOW pIdCI1CdlIy K.
 To Block MongoIs
 "One hint of the importance that the Mongols may have had at an early date is the worlds most extensive work of man, the Great Wall of China for it was in an effort to keep out the Mongols that the Chinese began that tremendous rampant in 219 B. c. The ruins of Kharkhoto are barely 50 miles outside the Great Wall and not more than 250 miles from Picking. They lie on the southeastern edge of the Gobi Desert in a region, the dryness of which is reported to have preserved even papers and fabrics of great age. The ruins lie in what has come to be known as Inner Mongolia, a region of old Mongolia into which there has been considerable infiltration of Chi nese in recent centuries.
 'The political pendulum has made frequent swings in Mongolia in late years. It had been recognized as a province of China for many years when in 1912 Imperial Russia obtain ed treaty recognizing it's autonomy and granting concessions to Russia When the Russian empire collapsed China cancelled the treaty of 1912, and reassumed unrestricted control. Later Bolsheviki force took posses sion of the capital, Urga, and brought about complete independence of Mon golia as a nominal empire. The Bol- shevists then gained control and turn ed the empire into republic
 Religion Made Pacifists
 "The Mongols of today are of the same strain as their far-conquering and many of them live the same care-free nomadic life on the plains. But among the people as