1 saw the wreckage of one plant which was stated to be an SH bomber. Tt was impossible, however, to confirm this owing to the smallness of the remnants. Questioned regarding the eerie of most alr-combats, the spokesman replied that they occurred most Frequently over Lake Bult, which was. inaccessible at the " present moment by land owing to the very heavy rains and wildness of the country. Most combats, he said, took place at a height of between 12,000 to 15,000 fect.
The Japanese pilots, he added, were not interested in their individual Victims during the heat of battle, but were content to witness their toreh-Uke downfall, without registering the exter point of the final flaming. pyre of the Soviet pilots and machine-Gunners. Some of the Soviet planes, the said, were of the JKB chaser type, Which were capable of a spec of Between 350 to 490 kilometres an hour, Forty Soviet planes yesterday raided two points in Manchoukuo territory, one about 40 kilometres from Holohar and the other about 60 kilometres from Halahar, "The bombs landed on fields and caused no damage. The raiders hastily made for home, not, giving Japanese planes an opportunity to engage them.
"These "bomb-and-run" raids are believed to have been made in an attempt to create a diversion in order to. relieve. retreating" Soviet-Outer Mongol troops from Japanese bombing—Reuter.
Struggle For mill 'The battle for Nomonhan continues with increasing intensity, with the Till' the objective of both Japanese ks, The Aghting of the struggle for Changkaofeng last summer. Aeroplanes, tanks and heavy artillery are {aking part ina desperate struggle for the hill, which is situated 160 miles south-west of Hailar.
The crest of the hill remains no man's land, but the Mongols are grim-Iy'hanging on to the western ridges despite gruelling artillery: and machine-gun fire, Crossing the Khalka river under a heavy Japanese artillery barrage, driblets of Mon-{golian forces are' now rushing to re-{nforce their comrades holding, out below Nomonhan, Nero. height, a lower hillock near the loop of the Halahar river, is reported to have been surrounded by Japanese troops.
The fighting 1s developing into trench warfare, with both sides digging in, My impression is that the planned exploitation of the earlier Japanese successes has not come up to" expectation owing "to Mongol counter-attacks with force.
"Although severely damaged by Japanese bombing, the Mongols are Still able to use the bridges spanning the Khalka river under cover of night reinforce some 4,000 of their comrades who are in danger of encirclement by Japanese forees operating from the north and other columns operating from the Halunarshan terminal of the Hsinking-Halunarshan Railway, the southernmost point of the front. saw several cars of wounded today, evidence of the severity of the fighting, which is likely to be prow tracted in. view of the stiffening of the Mongol forces by new Soviet
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