Changehun, Apr. 1.
In a telegraphed note' to Outer Mongolia, Manchoukuo to-day rejected the former's contention that Sunday's border clash was the outcome of a raid by a joint Japanese-Manchoukuo force upon an Outer Mongolian outport in the vicinity of Bulundersun.
'To-day's note, supplementing an earlier protest," declared that two JOuter Monyot' aeroplanes dropped about 20 bombs and strafed with machine-gun fire a Japanese-Manchoukuo detachment on Sunday after noon at a point about 20 kilometres northwest of Adykdolon, which. Manchoukuo claims, is well within Manchoukuo territory. Casualties suffered by the unit were one dead ani four wounded.
The communication further added that two Outer Mongo! planes were seen reconnoitring over Manchoukuo territory at about 1030 o'clock that morning.
Meanwhile, officials awaited reports from Army detachments in western Manchoukuo on yesterday's reported encounter between a Kwantung Army force and Outer Mongolian aerial and Jand units, The latter are alleged to have used poison gas, but this could not be confirmed—Domel,
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