The situation became worse when news arrived from Kobdo that the Chinese there had made a pogrom, killing some of the inhabitants and burning the whole town after a wild looting orgy.

Most of the people got away to the forests on the mountains but it was at night and consequently without warm clothes and without food.

During the following days these mountains around Kobdo heard many cries of misfortune, woe and death.

The severe cold and hunger killed off the women and children out under the open sky of the Mongolian winter.

This news was soon known to the Chinese.