Two small houses are said to have been damaged by the Japanese bombardment and five persons injured.
The Japanese version says that Japanese and Soviet warplanes battled over Lake Buir for 40 minutes, and that later a Japanese air fleet bombed the Outer Mongol base at Tomsk, about 60 miles south of Lake Buir.
According to an official announcement at Changchun, the battle occurred when 200 Soviet and Mongol planes flew over the lake at dawn.
It is claimed that 98 of these planes -were shot dow, and in the raid on Tomsk the Japanese say that their machines bombed and burned 30 aircraft on the ground.
Three Japanese planes are said to have failed to return to their base.
—Reuter.
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