Japanese reports claiming that the Soviets and Mongolians were using corrosive materials and bacteriolog!- cal means of combat were described as "impudent les and infamous calumny."
Presenting an outline of the seri ous hostilities between July @ and 12, Tass declared that intermittent battles were fought in the Nomonhan and Bourdobo regions, River Khalka, July had practically cleared Outer Mongolian territory of enemy forces.
At dawn on July 8, however, the Manchoukuo forces began a "new offensive, having received reinforcements, from the interior, of men and tanks, heavy artillery and aeroplanes, Sweeping forward, the enemy violated the Outer Mongolian tron-Uer east of the River Khalka once again, and from that day until July 12, hand-to-hand fighting took place East of the stream.
'The Soviet-Mongol troops, support ed by bombing and pursuit planes, resisted stoutly, however, and successfully repulsed every' attack to stand their ground in all sectors, Tass'
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