FRONTIER FIGHTING
sbvifet AND MANCHljklld TROOPS RUSSIANS CROSS BORDER. VERY TENSE ATMOSPHERE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.55 .a.rri.) TOKIO, April 4. The Dome! News Agency reports that fighting between Soviet and Marichukuo troops Commenced on Apfril 2 when twenty-three Russians crossed the border. near Liuchia, in the western part of North Singan Province and fired on frontier patrols, who replied. The Russians retired after three hours’ fighting, both sides suffering casualties. The at? tack Was resumed next day by seventy Russians, armed with artillery and ma-chine-gate, and later reinforced .by eighty cavalrymen and more guns. The forces are now facing each other. The atmosphetb.is.-v.ery tense*...,.-.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1939, Page 6
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