JAPAN AND SOVIET
FIGHTING IN MANCHUKTJO LARGE FORCES ENGAGED TANKS, CAVALRY, AIRCRAFT By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received July 3. 9.20 p.m.) LONDON, July 2 It is officially 0 announced from Dairen, Manchukno, that the Japanese Army has launched an offensive against the Soviet Mongolian forces with the object of expelling them from Manclnikuoan territory. The British United Press correspondent at Tokio reports that fighting on a large scale has broken out in the Khalba River sector of the western border of Mancliukuo and Outer Mongolia. Tanks, machine-guns, cavalry and aeroplanes are engaged.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23389, 4 July 1939, Page 9
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