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Show SOVIET AIRPLANES RAID CHINA TOWNS TOKIO. Oct 21 (INS) Fifteen soviet airplanes bomoed a number of towns In southwestern Sinklang province and in Chinese Turkestan, according to unconfirmed reports reaching Tokio today. Tha towns which were attacked Included Yarkand. Karghallk. Guma and Khotan, according to the advices, ad-vices, which said ths planes cooperated coop-erated with soviet troops which occupied oc-cupied Kashgar, Yarkand and Khotan. Kho-tan. Yinggissar, south of Kashgar, was alleged to have been wiped out. Civilian casualties were reported extremely ex-tremely heavy. The Randlktan areas were said to have been occupied by anticom-munist anticom-munist Mohsmmsdan troops since last May. The reported soviet action was seen as possibly designed to safeguard safe-guard transport routes between Russia and China proper. These routes are threatened by Japanese forces. |