Tientsin, Oct, 8.
Japanese planes this morning destroyed the iron bridge over the Shan River, about 20 miles south of Shihchiachwang, to check the retreat of Chinese from Shihchiaochwang—the last Chinese stronghold in Hopel. Japanese air scouts reported large bodies of Chinese troops were retreating south and westward from Shihchiachwang, Pingshan and Chin-hsien. Chinese concentrations at Chaochow and Ningchin were yesterday bombed by Japanese planes. About 200 boats used by Chinese troops to cross a creek north of Linching, about 100 kims. west of Tsinan, were destroyed yesterday, a communique claimed—Domei.
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