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General Michael Borodin, the Russian field adviser to the Cantonese r threatened once more to upset the Chinese apple cart, last week, was the sudden appearance from the North of some 36,000 troops under the redoubtable "Chinese Cromwell" Feng Yu-hsiang. Feng was driven into the Mongolian fastness last spring. Nominally he is the friend of the Cantonese, but the ways of the "heathen Chinee" are no more "peculiar" than those of General Feng who is a Christian according to his lights...
...fiery interviews with stubborn officials, forty-course dinners, thieving innkeepers, Russian refugees, seas of mud and acres of dust traversed by caravans of jolting carts and finally by camels into the great northern desert compose the panorama, which finally reaches its climax at the beginning of the snow-less Mongolian winter when the expedition sights the walls of ancient Kharakhoto, the Black City of Marco Polo, deserted for centuries to the shifting sands of the desert, a romantic paradise for the adventuring archaeologist...
...Mabel Bailey of Chicago. According to French law, a Frenchman marrying abroad must have the ceremony performed either by a French diplomatic agent, or in the custom of the country of residence at the time. Neither of these conditions were fulfilled. A Belgian missionary is not a French diplomat. Mongolian custom says that a man must either capture his wife in a horse galloping ceremony, or buy her from her family (ten ewe lambs being the price of a maiden and 20 for a young widow...
...spite of French law and Mongolian folklore, Mabel Bailey (the Countess de Lesdain) maintained that the wedding ceremony was carried through in perfect good faith by both parties. Therefore the court declared marriage was "putative." It is null in law but valid in equity. Daughter Pauline is legitimate...
...Florida, a 35-ft. idol with Mongolian features, carved from "wood eternal" (sea mangrove), was found near a burial mound whose occupants lived, guessed scientists, 2,000 years...