1941, during Anti-Japanese War.
Tanks, planes means these bond will be used to produce arms to kill Japanese aggressors.
I think.
XinJiang is a province that time, it became an autonomous region afterward.

Neat! It's fun seeing Sheng Shicai's six-pointed star so prominently displayed.

The Uyghur tells us that the unit of currency is "dollars". The bottom line is just "Xinjiang Provincial Government".

The Uyghur on the left is really hard to make out. It doesn't help that it's in an older script. I see "'islaxat zayomi", but that... just doesn't seem right. The Mongolian (is it Mongolian? It looks like Manchu. But it's been a while, and I'm far from my books...) on the right is also painfully difficult. Do you have a larger photo?

Here's an enhanced version of the Uyghur script for you:

OpkeHessip is right on deciphering the Uyghur script, it is "Islahat Zayomi", which is written in the older script before the current one was developed.

So what's that mean?

islahat = reform or revolutionary (borrowing from arabic)

zayom = bond (borrowing from russian)

Michael,

"Islahat" means reform; "zayom" means government or public bond (it came from the Russian word "заём"). "Islahat zayomi" meant to be same as "JIAN SHE GONG ZHAI", but as can you see "islahat" is not quite equal to "JIAN SHE". The right word for "JIAN SHE" is "qurulush".

@dyn

"1941, during Anti-Japanese War.
Tanks, planes means these bond will be used to produce arms to kill Japanese aggressors.
I think.
XinJiang is a province that time, it became an autonomous region afterward."

thanks agin for your enlightened views. 'tanks, planes..' weapons , death, murder - great. Mind yu Shen's reign has a lot to do with that but for a majority of it he ran Xinjiang as Soviet puppet- he was Stalin's man, and Han power was a long way away. It is a 'revolutionary' bond here not a war bond. The tanks and planes yu love so much are representative of Shen's Soviet backed military power he used against the Uyghur, Kazakh and Hui.

and also for your accurate historical perceptions

re:

"I think"

shouldnt a Han nationalist like you know his history?

and also the terrible reigns of the Han Warlords over Xinjiang????

@Michael

re:

"Chairman Mao's little brother, Mao Zemin, was living in Urumqi at the time and became the proud father of a baby boy that year, named Mao Yuanxin. (Mao Zemin and his pregnant wife were arrested by Sheng Shicai and the baby was born in prison. Mao Zemin was executed in Urumqi two years later, and the baby grew up to become a central figure in the Cultural Revolution and an ally of the Gang of Four.)"

thanks for that info on Maozemin's child very interesting. Who was his wife do yu know? He was imprisoned in a small hut that used to be onthe fgrounds of the former Yi Xu Shue Yuan or sanat maktap, which was formerly oen of Shen's military training schools. He was liquidated in the basement of that horrible red brick building close to the front gate of XIN DA and according to local folklore in a most unsavory way by application of certain hot subastances to his major orifices - (Shen's delight).

correction re above post:

"Yi Xu Shue Yuan"

should read:

Yi shu Xue Yuan

damn pinyin...

Very interesting. I don't remember seeing anything like this in the Xinjiang Museum... I assume it's the big one in Urumqi with great descriptions of the minorities in the province. Also has the ancient corpses with blond hair.

There's an exhibit on the second floor dedicated to the liberation of Xinjiang by the PLA... but the doors are often closed (making it easy to miss) and there are no descriptions in English!

Which reminds me... can anyone help me translate the captions for these two photos? (Also from the Xinjiang Museum)

@ Michael,

The 1st one read "revolutionary martyrs from the Red Western Front army killed by enemies"

The 2nd one read "Commander of the Red 5th Army Dong jintang and other revolutionary martyrs mercilessly killed by enemies"

@Jame

What picture on bond means to do and what Shen ShiCai actually do is two different thing.
Shen ShiCai oppressed both Uyghur and Han.

@Heverci: Thanks!

dyn

re:

"@Jame

What picture on bond means to do and what Shen ShiCai actually do is two different thing.
Shen ShiCai oppressed both Uyghur and Han."

sorry dyn , how could i doubt your interpretation of history. The Han killed by Shen were Communist infiltrators - Spies. IT was at a time he was also ant-Soviet. Although patriotic pro Gou Min dang Anti-Japanese groups did exist in most towns Shen's main emphasis was to uphold his own power whether he be pro-nationalist or pro-stalin. He was never pro Gong chang dang. Xinjiang was only a loosely held nationalist possesion at the time verging on independence. If it was not for the duplicity and deception handed out to the Uyghur by Mao and Stalin resulting in the murder of the East Turkestan's governement's leadership, they would have their own country today and your fantasies of Xinjiang always being a part of China relegated to the dustbin of history where they belong.

wrong, james, there would not be an independent country but there would be one more Russian oblast.

and wrong again james, whether Uighurs would have created an independent state in the 30's does not change whether Xinjiang had been a part of China. sorry, causality at work, learn your high school physics.