RAPID ADVANCE
RUSSIANS IN MANCHURIA
STIFF RESISTANCE ON PLAIN (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) Rec. 9 a.m. ' LONDON, August 14. The battle for Harbin is taking shape, says the Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain. The Russians north of the city have made a rapid advance down the Sungari River, as well 5s spreading out into the vast territory between the Sungari and Ussuri Rivers. Correspondents in the iront line say that resistance is stiff on the Manchurian plain, where advanced mobile forces are probing' the Japanese positions. Marshal Malinovsky's transBaikal army is extending its front and using more mountain passes. General Meretzkov's forces approaching the
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 39, 15 August 1945, Page 7
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