Two Japanese detachments held the front lines in the face of a desperate attack from enemy tanks and artillery units and covered the advance of another Japanese units to positions near the junction of the tivo rivers, the dispatch stated.
Soviet long-range artillery fire was fairly accurate, and after yesterday's bombardment the Baishagar sector was pock-marked with shell holes, according to another dispatch from' e correspondent with Japanese forces at the front.
Soviet and Ouler Mongolian field guns planted on the high western Bank of the Khalka River had, been showering fre on the Japanese' posi tions since the morning of August 23. Japanese artillery aided by aeroplanes succeeded in pounding and wrecking enemy heavy artillery pieces one after another, the message claimed, Japanese forces were luring the Soviet mechanized units Into posltions for close-range attacks, according to the report from the front—Domei.
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