Conversations with numerous Japanese, including officers, alr aces and privates, and with a' score of Russian prisoners convince one that the Japanese are incomparably superior in training, equipment and morale to any troops which the Soviet has so far sent to this border.
The tour tended to substantiate Japanese reports of a seemingly incredible number of Soviet planes destroyed—reported to be approximately 400 compared with the twelve which the Japanese have lost—although in our search we failed to find actual proof of the Japanese claims.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.