Peiping, Oct. 20.
Japanese troops in Shantung are withdrawing north, according to a foreign report from Tsinanfu to-day.
Forces of Gen. Han Fu-chu, chairman of Shantung, have made a big advance towards Tehchow from ihe Tubal River, the report states, encountering little opposition from the Two towering columns of smoke thousands of feet high rising over the north-western district of Shanghai yesterday were grim reminders the bombing in Chinese areas. One was within a short distance of the Settlement boundary.
Early morning aerial activities were concentrated on Chapei where a large number of bombs were dropped beyond Stone Bridge. Direct hits were registered on buildings about a quarter of mile from Stone Bridge, and at about 1045 three Japanese planes added to the morning's work by dropping six bombs simultaneously. There was a terrifle detonation which shook the district for miles around and smoke shot high into the air. With the bombs were showers of propaganda leaflets, but another odd accompaniment was showers of printed labels and strips of paper which floated like confetti over the Settlement and fell on the roofs of buildings as far away as The Bund. Apparently, a Chinese printing works was also hit during the. bombing and blast released
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.