Pingyuan, Nov, 17.
Deployed along 180-mile front, JJapanese soldiers to-night faced their [Chinese opponents across the muddy, swirling waters of the Yellow Riv 'Three Japanese columns yesterda: reached the banks of "China's Sorrow' preparatory to erossing the river for an attack upon Tsinan.
For the second time in as many! days Chinese troops blew up part of the big iron bridge over the Yellow River early yesterday morning, in a desperate attempt 10 halt the rapid Jadvance of Japanese columns, military authorities announced this afternoon, Never before has this great German-designed, 1,344-metre bridge been damaged despite long years and countless feuds between Chinese war Fords when it survived the shot and shell of battle. Now it is a twisted
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