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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...ruse in which they tricked General Yang Fu-cheng, whose troops had high-jacked the kidnapping. Oilman Fitch confirmed that the city of Weinan, which had absolutely nothing to do with the case, had been wiped out and said he thought 400 Chinese in Sian, also bystanders, had been "exe-cuted in and around Sian during the purge which followed the coup." A further and persistent report was that the Dictator, while technically the prisoner of kidnappers, had held long and earnest parleys in Sian with the celebrated Chinese Communist, General Cho Wen-lai, "Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Opium & Politics | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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