New Britain herald., 1924-10-22
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Germans Seek to Establish SerY- ice From Moscow to Pekine

uRGA, Mongolia. Oct. s2-Repre- sentatives of the German Junkers Company have just completed an air survey to give regular airplane service between Moscow and Picking. with a possibility of extending 1t uI- tlmately into South China. The line will follow the Trans Siberian Railway from Moscow as far as Verkne-Udinsk, and from there will turn south to Urga. and then to Pek- ing by way of Kalgan and the rail- way connecting southern Mongolia with the Chinese capital.
 The Moscow government has ap- proved the route, and 1t is the desire of the promoters to get American capital to bacls<a joint German Rus sian Company. There is no likeli- hood that the regular service will be established before next year at the earliest. An air service is now op- erating with more or less regularity between Moscow and vladivostock, and the proposed Picking line would operate in connection with this serv- ice, transferring passengers at Nerkne-udinsk who desire to go to Mongolian or Chinese cities.
 Since Mongolia declared itself an independent republic last July and proclaimed the Churuldan, or assem- ply, the holder of the supreme pow CT of the land. there is much specu- lation as to what the future of the great plain country will be. Under the Living Buddha, who is now dead, it was presumably an autonomous country under the protection of China, but the Russian czarist gov ernmont had Mongolia as a sphere of influence and resisted the efforts of Americans and other foreigners to get concessions to build railways here.
 When the czarist government fell affairs became chaotic in Mongolia. Baron Ungern- -Sternberg, as leader of the White Russians. took Mongo- lia after the bolshevists came into power and assumed supervision of the affairs of the Hutuktli, or Living Buddha. who had for years been the ward of the old czarist govern- ment.
 Three years ago the Red forces undermined Baron Ungern- Stern berg's power in Mongolia, captured and executed him. That was in the days when the Far Eastern Repub- lie still existed in central Siberia, north Of Mongolia, with its capital at Chita.. The far eastern republic was later absorbed by the Moscow government, but the bolshevist forces never gave up the dominance they had achieved in Mongolia by virtue Of the overthrow Of Ungern- Sternberg and Moscow has continued to direct Mongolian affairs, assum- ing much the same relation that the oaarist government held toward Mongolia.
 It was not until the death ot the Ewing Buddha, that Mongolia pro- claimed itself republic, thereby casting off Chinese control, and the- oretically becoming independent. In fact it is more thoroughly than ever under the domination of Moscow. as the great undeveioped plain and des- ert land has few men among It's nornadic population of 100000 who can read and. write and are capable of directing it's affairs.
 Mongolia is II times as large as Texas and nearly half as large as all of the continental area of the tinted States. but much of its ter ritory is included in the Gobi Des- crt and large percentage of the land requires irrigation for agricul- tural purposes. Its inhabitants are mostly wandering tribes of Mongols and Kalmucks that live In tent col onies and graze cattle and sheep on the high plains.