At one o'clock in the afternoon, the message continues, Japanese bombing squadrons, followed by a group of pursuit planes, appeared over the fighting zone and effectively attacked the Soviet and Outer Mongol positions along the western bank of the Khalka River.
Shortly after 7 p.m, when the Japanese pursuit planes had left the fighting zone, more than a dozen Soviet bombers bombed the area lying between a Japanese field hospital and the first line.
The raiders are reported to have been greeted with anti-aircraft fire and to have been pursued by Japanese fighting planes. They are said to have retreated to Outer Mongol territory "afer dropping their bombs indiscriminately."
At 9 pin, the Soviet artillery Positions on the western bank of the Khalka River re-opened fire, but, this time, the dispatch says, the firing was "apparently at random."
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