FRONTIER CLASH

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21708, 15 February 1936, Page 15

FRONTIER CLASH

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■„ PSI3S **BOCUTIOir -cof TB-OHT.) Lived February 15,12.15 am.) . ‘ HARBIN, February 14. .* norted from Hailar that J Soviet aeroplanes bombed and Manchukuo troops fron.ier. . Manchukuo Foreign Office A b( Sn described the bombS? as tantamount to an act of 5r without formal declaration. ?Jded that his Government JJJthe most serious view of JJ affair and would take the . suitable effective countermeasures. The alleged bombing is stated to 1 occurred during a sharp enliter between Mongols, and Goanese and Manchukuo troops. The fighting lasted nine hours before the Mongols were forced to reaeroplanes are reported to be standing by at Taitsihar, but according- to a message from Tokyo the belief persists-that neither the Russians nor'the Japanese wish to precipitate hostilities at present. An earlier message stated: Six men have been killed in a serious japanese-rSoviet frontier action An official, communique from Tolcvo says that bombs, machineLmand field guns were used, when U Soviet war aerop.anes bombed Japanese soldiers. The battle oc-curred-at Olobodoka, on the frontier between Outer, Mongolia and Manchukuo, where inciden.s have recently increased the tension. According to the statement, Japanese and Manchukuo troops, while demarcating the frontier near Lake Buimor, encountered 200 Mongols. The Japanese party drove the Mongols off, occupied Olbhodoka and captured a field gun, a machine-gun and eight Mongols. A Japanese lieu-tenant-and five Japanese soldiers were killed. ,