Japanese-Manchoukuo Guns Silence- Outer Mongolian Batteries Changchun, July 26.
Downing 42 Soviet aircraft in engagements yesterday afternoon, Japanese combat planes along Manchoukuo's western border shot down 59 hostile machines during the day, the Kwantung Army headquarters claimed here today. Seventeen had been shot down in the forenoon, the communique said.
Three 1-16 mon-plane combat planes were shot down at about 8.30 a.m., near Nomonhan. Eight more of the same type were downed in a combat above Khalkamiao at 9.30 am. Five more Soviet craft are believed to have been disabled in this encounter.
About forty 1-16 lighters were intercepted crossing the border at about 240 p.m., of which 29 were shot down. Nineteen others were shot down at various points along the border, it was claimed.—Domet,
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