Mongolia Strife in Asia s Interior

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as another public service with drama The Past and Present and commentary by Owen Latimore, authority on Mongolia and director of the School of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University. Mongolia, Strike in Asia's Interior. The Chinese commander and I were sitting in his quarters playing cards when it happened.

Aranungurn Sternberg, with a horse with his hands burst in. His eyes were blazing, behind him with two Russian soldiers with rifles. There he is! Commander, late dead. I'm an American. Your name? Barlow? Samuel Barlow.

Why are you here in Urga? I'm a traveler. What's the meaning of this? You will learn. You have to stay here. Jöder, you will stand guard outside the door. And Värsnöf, you'll come with me.

I stood there a long time looking at the body of the Chinese commander on the floor. The Russian Revolution had come to Mongolia. The man with the horse whip was a zarist. Until the outbreak of World War I, the zar had had a strong garrison here.

But most of the kasics had been taken to fight the Germans. And thousands of political prisoners and peasants freed by the revolution had come down into Mongolia. I heard someone raising a window. Not the Chinese. I thought the Chinese were his is.