Japanese aircraft shot down seventeen Soviet planes of the I-16 type in two clashes with more than 70 craft over the western border of Manchoukuo today, the headquarters of the Kwantung Army claimed in a communique released this evening.
A Japanese aerial squadron encountered more than 30 Outer Mongolian combat planes of Soviet manufacture over the Nomonhan area at 9.30 o'clock this morning. At 1230 o'clock Japanese planes clashed with 40 more hostile craft. One Japanese plane had not returned to its base at the time the statement was issued.
—Reuter.
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