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Update to Jan Cutherbertson's Chinese sword book:

Continuing the good research on chinese swords, Jan sent the following eMAIL ...

Hi Mike:

A friend of mine in China has identified one of the swords in my book as a Mongolian Puppet State army sword. I have it identifed erroneously as a Manchukuo sword. The flags on the sword handle backstrap are clearly those of the Mongolian government under the Japanese. I thought maybe you could put it on your website. Attached are photos of the sword and also a brief blurb about the Mongolian Puppet state and a picture of the flag.

Kind regards,

Jan

Here are some reference photos provided by Jan.

Mongolian Puppet State officer's sword

Mongolian Puppet State flag

Some Background detail provided by Jan ..

Mongol Military Government (1936-1937) Inner Mongolia or Mengjiang (Meng Chiang), northeast China, north to the independent (Outer) Mongolia was one of several Japanese puppet states. It used a flag of light blue with a canton of vertical red-yellow-white in equal widths. The Japanese controlled Inner Mongolia was constituted as an "Autonomous Council" in 1934. On 8 December, 1937, in advance of the Japanese invasion of China, the Mongolian Prince Teh Wang proclaimed independence, signed a cooperation agreement with Manchokuo, and adopted for the country the name of MENGKUKUO (as given in Spanish sources; Meng Chiang is the name used in English sources). The capital was established at Chan Pei, near Kalgan. Chinese dominance of the area ended after the murder of a Chinese delegate on 24 January, 1938. The Japanese imposed a government, in which the principal ministers were Japanese. In August 1945, the Mengkukuo went over to the communists, with Soviet help.

Hope this helps.

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