TREACHERY IN MONGOLIA.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15309, 9 August 1923, Page 5

TREACHERY IN MONGOLIA.

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BOLSHEVIK MACHINATIONS. FEMALE BTJDDA POISONED. Australian and N.Z. Gable Assn. Received August 9, 12.30 p.m. LONDON, August 8. The Daily Mail's Pekin correspondent says despatches from the capital of Mongolia announce that the wife of the living Budda. or Hutuktu, who was proclaimed Emperor in 1912, has been fatally poisoned by the court attendants. It is stated they were bribed by Bolshevik officials. The Bolsheviks, il is believed, feared the female Budda would exercise too much influence in the campaign against them, which began recently. For the past two years she has played an important part in Mongolian "polities, and cherished the dream of Mongolia being independent again. She conspired with the mad Baron Von Sternberg in 192 1, who forced the Living Budda to declare the independence of Outer Mongolia, but the Baron was captured by the Bolsheviks ami executed. The Bolsheviks thereafter made themselves suzerain nver Mongolia, but Ihe wife of Iho Living Budda weaned her husband from Soviet influence, and recently both were implicated in plots lo oust the Bolsheviks from Mongolia. Subordinate plotters were either imprisoned or executed.