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Zoning Press News 
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1 August, 1958 
FOREIGN MENS 
Tok yo : 
The entire Japanese Cabinetprepared to meet today to 
consider the results of the sharp clash in the vicinity of 
Changkufeng on Sunday morning between Japanese and Soviet 
troops « Japanese reports are that the Russians invaded the 
Manchukucan and Korean areas and were driven back in two 
sharp clashes. The Japanese reported that the first engagement 
lasted more than five hours and that 30 Russians were killed 
and some 170 wounded. The Japanese did not list their own 
casualties but claimed the capture of 11 tanks and artillery 
equipment. In the second engagement, it was reported, Russian 
artillery bombarded the towns of Kojo and Sozan’ in Korea. 
Dispatches from Moscow said that the Soviet Government had 
discounted the Japanese version of the incidentj and reported 
that no serious battle had occurred. The Russians say the 
Japanese version of the battle is only ?, faco saving propaganda 
Kingston, Jamaic, 
Rescue workers tonight recovered 58 mangled bodies from the 
wreckage of 'the worst railroad disaster in the history of the 
Nest Indies, and it was feared that the death toll might reach 
60. The disaster occurred letp Saturdaj/ - in a lonely region 
about 70 miles from Kingston when five crowded passenger coaches 
a steep grade by two locomotives 
smashed to the bottom of a steep river bank. Crushed bodies 
still were being removed from the debris this evening, more 
than 84 hours after the crash. 72 persons wore badly * injured. 
The victims were natives, men, women, and children from all 
walks of life throughout the island. 
Manila : 
Rox using co abandon search for the missing Hawaii Clipper, 
giant 26 ton flyin g boat which vanished enroute from 
Guam to Manila last week, 14 Naval vessels and seven" airplanes 
headed out over the Pacific this morning to resume the hunt. 
The only clue so far discovered was a huge oil slick sighted 
on the ocean some 500 miles oast of the Philippines. 
J erusalon: 
Brxtish troops engaged a band of -tvrabs in a hot skirmish 
in northern Palestine today. Ihc Arabs fled after several 
of their band had been killed and i/ounded. The British also 
suffered several casualties. 
Tokio : 
Dispatches from the trouble area on the Manchukuoan-Siberian 
border reported today that the Soviet planes had bombed and 
machine gunned Japanese troops in the vicinity of Changkufeng 
Hill. The Japanese said several Soviet planes had been shot 
down by Nipponese anti-aircraft gunners. 
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