While reports from the western perimeter last night indicated movements of troops out of Chapei over the Chungsan Road bridge, as well as certain movement into Chapei the Japanese military spokesman, at 10 o'clock, stated that a general Chinese retreat in a south-westerly direction along the Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo. railway and Chungsan Road had "begun. "Large Chinese units," he said, "are withdrawing to the west from the Markham Road junction, while other large bodies of troops are retreating to the south-west along the railway."
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