evidence: According to report, Outer Mongolia is to be declared a republic. After the Chinese revolution of 1912, Outer Mongolia (about half the size of continental U. S.) declared its independence from China and proclaimed as Emperor the Hutuktu (Living Buddha). The Hutuktu, spiritual and temporal head of the State, ruled autocratically in much the same way as the Popes used to rule the Papal States. [...] In 1921, however, Baron Ungern von Sternberg, leader of an anti-Bolshevik force, forced the Hutuktu again to declare the independence of Outer Mongolia. In the Spring of the same year von Sternberg was defeated and executed ; Mongolia fell under the influence of the Soviet Government at Moscow, thus leaving China’s position with regard to Mongolia obscure.