JAPANESE OFFENSIVE
LAUNCHED IN MONGOLIA
FIGHTING ON LARGE SCALE. TANKS AND PLANES USED. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, July 3. It is officially announced that tlie Japanese army has launched an offensive against Soviet .Mongolian forces with the object of expelling them from Manchukuoan territory, slates a message from Dairen. The British United Press correspondent in Tokio reports that fighting on a large scale has broken out in the Khalba River sector of the western border of Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia. Tanks, machine-guns, cavalry and planes are engaged. JAPANESE CLAIM FORTIFIED HILL TAKEN. (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) HSINKING, July 3. The Japanese claim that their Kwantung army drove back the Mongols, took a fortified hill in the face of heavy machine-gun fire, and also captured thirty tanks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1939, Page 5
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