Hsinking, June 25.
Japanese and Manchoukuo Air Forces were prepared to "leave nothing undone to chastise" aerial invaders of Manchoukuo territory, a spokesman of the Manchoukuo Government declared last night.
"We are determined to crush those who violate our territory," he said. f'During the period from June 19 to 24 Outer Mongolian planes, assisted by Soviet aircraft, flew over Nomonhan and five other points in North Hsingan Province near the border 11 times, Manchoukuo territory was bombed, "Ca-operating closely, Japanese and Manchoukuo Air Forces, despite their numerical inferiority, shot down 61 of the Outer Mongolian and Soviet planes, and drove the rest across the border.
"Manchoukuo is acting in accorde ance with international justice, never violating the border, and thus maintaining a fair attitude toward Outer Mongolia and the Soviet Union."
Japanese Army aircraft shot down 123 Outer Mongolian and Soviet planes in clashes on the Manchoukuo border in the period from the Nomonhan incident of May 20 to Saturday might, military authorities here claimed today.
Japanese planes shot down one light bomber of the SH. type on May 20, one on May 21, three on May 22, three on May 26, nine on May 27, 42 on May 28, 49 on June 22, one on June 23, and 12, on June 24. Two Soviet planes were forced to land during the clash on June 22.—Domei.
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