Tokyo, July 3.
Heavy Japanese and Manchoukuo artillery bombardment and deadly aerial bombing have silenced the batteries of the Soviet Outer Mongolian forces on the western bank of Khalha River, Japanese field dispatches said today.
The silencing of the Soviet batteries and outflanking of the Mongol forces on the river front resulted in a steady encircling of the alleged invaders, the dispatches added. The combined Japanese and Manchoukuo forces have almost completed their encircling movement against the Soviet and Outer Mongol forces.
A part of the Japanese-Manchoukuo forces today at 2 p.m. successfully outflanked the Soviet-Mongol troops and cut off their retreat at the ferry points on the Khalha River after capturing thirty Soviet tanks, the Japanese dispatches claimed.—United Press.
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