Western Manchoukuo, July 7.
Smouldering Soviet-built Outer Mongolian tanks today provided a strange spectacle on the barren plains of western Manchoukuo as the isolate ed columns of dense smoke appeared as if they came from the chimneys in a factory town.
More than 180 Soviet tanks and armoured cars, the latter six-wheeled affairs mounted with a huge turret containing a quick-fung gun, have been put out of cómmission by Japanese artillery fire and mine attacks by Japanese and Manchoukuo volunteer bands.
Specially-designed mines powerful enough fo cripple the tank by destroying its tread have been successfully used against these Soviet mechanized units.
With the Japanese and Manchoukuo forces continuing to make progress m pushing back the Soviet and Outer Mongolians to the Khalka River, Japanese officers confidently expected the operations to be ended within this week,
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