Hailar, June 28.
The atmosphere is extremely tense in the Lake Buir area, where a severe aerial battle between Japan-nese and Soviet planes occurred yesterday morning, and further fighting is feared.
Against the Japanese claim of having shot down 98 Soviet and Outer Mongolian planes, the Soviets assert that they shot down seven Japanese machines and lost six.
According to the Soviet version, 110 Japanese and Manchoukuo fighters and bombers raided Mongolian territory in the Tamskbulak district, some 75 miles across the frontier.
Sever raiding craft, it is claimed, were brought down in the ensuing air battle, while "search is being meade for' six Soviet and Mongolian planes which failed to return to their base."
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