MIGHTY GENGHIZ.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 162, 12 July 1939, Page 7

MIGHTY GENGHIZ.

REMAINS MIGRATE. LEAVE 700"YEAR-OLD TOMB. SEIZURE BY JAPANESE FEARED (Special—By Air Mall.) HOXGKOXG. June 26. The remains of Genghiz Khan, greatest of all the Mongul nionarchs, which for 712 years have peacefully rested within a shrine at Estinhoro in Suiyuan, have been removed to an undisclosed place for fear they should bi seized by the Japanese. Chinese cities in Shensi, through which the remains of the old warrior and his queen passed, were gaily bedecked with iXational and Kuomintang flags, whila j thousands of people turned out to see the royal coffins. Fire crackers were fired in great profusion as the caskets containing the royal remains were borne by mules through the countryside, while a mounted Mongul guard shouldered the sword which Genghiz Khan used in so many of ais famous battles. The (ireat Khan died in 1227. but his remains have been perfectly preserved [for the past 700 years. ! One of the most glamorous military (figures in history, Genghiz Khan was the Ison of a warrior and was born with a clot of coagulated blood in his clenched 'fist. A ruthless fighter, he never failed to pillage and destroy the cities he captured in battle, and his wholesale massacres. sometimes numbering several hundreds of thousands at one'time, coninstitute the world's greatest horryr stories.