LARGE-SCALE FIGHTING
FRONTIER OF MANCHUKUO MONGOLIANS DRIVEN BACK JAPANESE ARMY CLAIMS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. July 4. 10 a.m.) LONDON, July 3. The British United Press correspondent at Tokio reports that fighting on a large scale has broken out in the Khal'ba River sector on the western border of Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia. Tanks, machine-guns, cavalry and planes are engaged. It is officially announced in Dairen that the Japanese army has launched an offensive against the Soviet Mongolian forces with the object of expelling them from Manchukuan territory.
A iHsinking message states that the Japanese claim that their Kwantung army drove back the Mongols and took a fortified hill in the face of heavy machine-gun fire, and also that they captured 30 tanks.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19980, 4 July 1939, Page 5
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