London, July 10.
According to reports received by the Foreign Office, a number of clashes had taken place, in which tanks and aeroplanes were at intervals since April 11, declared Mr, R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the House of Commons today in referring to the incidents on the border of Manchoukuo and Outer Mongols, The extent of the forces involved, and the casualties sustained, he added, were obscure owing to con-fioting reports published by both sides,—Reuter. of their friend, Soviet Russia, being fully convinced that the USSR. is not selfishly interested in their land," the newspaper declared.
It made no sensational disclosures about the Mongolian army, but affirmed that the main military force in the country was the cavalry, for in Outer Mongolia there are two horses to every man.
The population is 900,000, residing a territory of 1,500000 square kilometres.
The "Krasnaia Zviesda" also devoted much space to the system of training given tank and armoured car units of the Mongol Army.
There is a military training university in the Mongol Republic, and here are given training courses in all branches of the military sciences except aviation.
The newspaper added that 30 pet cent, of all Mongolian horsemen are members of a revolutionary party organized on the lines of the Communist Party.
A further 50 per cent. are members of a Revolutionary Youth Movement.
In conclusion the news organ eulogized the fighting qualities of the Mongolian soldier, who is tireless, enduring and used to undergoing privations and carrying on war in the desert, and emphasized that both Josef Stalin and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotoff had pledged Soviet defence of Outer Mongolia Havas,
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