Jap Offensive Against Soviet
Large-scale Fighting on Frontier TANKS, CAVALRY AND ’PLANES United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Monday, 10.50 p.ra. LONDON, July 3. It is officially announced from Dairen (Mancliukuo) that the Japanese Army has launched an offensive against the Soviet Mongolian forces with the object of expelling them from Manchukuoan territory. The British United Press correspondent at Tokio reports that fighting on a large scale has broken out in the Khalba River sector on the western border of Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia. Tanks, machineguns, cavalry and ’planes are engaged.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 155, 4 July 1939, Page 7
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