igh Japanese military declare that 00,000" Soviet "troops from the Baikal area are now quartered in zones behind the front, They discount reports that the So-viers plan to create diversions other parts of the frontier to relieve the pressure.
"The slowness of the progress Japanese forces, after the carller Stages of the battle, is attributed to Gieuttics of communications and shortage of mechanised sections, which are now being reinforced, At the same time, the strength of the Infantry is being increased, Two outstanding features of the fighting are the accuracy. of the Soviet. artillery andthe deadly bombing of Japanese planes.
The Japanese claim that, since the opening of the battle, they have destroyed 250 Mongol tanks and armoured ears, and" captured ap-Proximately 6). Russian prisoners, But i is impossible to confirm these Aigures "personally because of dif culties of transportation along the 250 Soviet Tanks Disabled A Japanese Army Base, July 9.
About 250 Soviet tanks, two-thirds of the total number in sation, have: been disabled by Japanese shells in ey one col Piel Us all Be Pudge sate ah a July 3 when a Soviet tank and a Japanese infantry unit clashed one Japanese antic tank gun, fung 10 shells, disabled five tanks within 10 minutes, The flames" imme=
"The number of Soviet tanks di abled in a half day of sighting. on July 3 is believed to be more than 150, "the tanks burn for' three to four hours afler being" hit. The Hulunpeierh ° plain looked as if a rear industrial plant had been set up. There was no wind on that day and the columns of smoke which went straight up. for" several hun dred feet from the blazing tanks Jooked Just like smoke from factory stacks, Acts of Bravery have just spoken of the bravery of the Japanese soldiers, but their speed in' attacking is noteworthy also, They charge the tanks in trucks fon which guns are mounted, Tt the trucks are demolished by enemy fire they remove the guns at" once and keep on attacking. In "one charge ike this nine Soviet" tanks were put out of oper "A Japanese soldier jumped on an armoured car and killed. the men it, He manned the car and drove about in the thick of the Agnt, forgetting to raise a Rising Sun flag. His comrades induced him 10 ut a flag on the ear lest he should be shot while being. mistaken" for tone of the enemy, "No matter how many' tanks and armoured cars the Soviet forces may put in action they. Will be no match for the Japanese. "This brave spirit of the Japanese soldiers will enable them to" 0 come all opposition."—Domel Plan to Exhaust Tron In Yangtze Valley Chungking, July Japan plans fully to exhaust the [Yangtze Valley of iten ore within ten years, leaving nothing whatever there, and intends to create an industry in North China where the Jdeposits are much richer, stated Dr. ong Wen-hea, Chinese' Economics Minister, yesterday.
Turning to the cotton and weaving industry, Dr. Oong stated that this furnished another example of Japan's Jeconomie invasion, for Japan had sue-Jeceded in regaining practically an fdentiea! number of "spindles and looms as in prewar times, despite the fact that the Chinese forces at sing tao had destroyed the foremost Japan-fosse cotton industries of China in view of the cotton shortage and in spite of Japan's own cotton spin ning industry, China's cotton goods industry was coveted by Japan. who through military occupation was position to increase the cotton goods output which were exported to. for= feign markets to the detriment of other countries—Trans-Ocean.
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