Tokyo, Sept. 1.
More than 10,000 Russian and Ouier Mongolian troops which crossed the Khalka River and took up positions near Nolo and Balshagar Heights in Manchoukuo territory were" being driven back to points near the con-nonce of the Khalka and Holstein Rivers today by combined Japanese and Manchoukuoan forces, according {to a Meld dispatch from Balshagar.
The invaders were equipped with 400 tanks, 100 eld guns ud 700 motor lorries, 'A message from a Japanese army base In Manchoukuo claimed that panese airplanes shot down a total 48 Soviet and Outer Mongolian planes in clashes yesterday and today.
Four Japanese air units engaged 60 Soviet and Outer Mongolian craft at 4 o'clock this afternoon and shot down, 32 of them in a furious combat, according to the message.
Yesterday afternoon Japanese alr-raft encountered 30 Soviet and Mongolian planes over Balshagar Height and brought down 16, the dispatch asserted.
Early on Thursday morning Japanese and Manchoukuo forces launched a vigorous counter-attack on the' Invaders with the assistance of aeroplanes, Japanese artillery units on the south bank of the Holstein River bombarded Soviet mechanized units, and inflicted severe damage on them, according to the dispatch,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.