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...China's adjacent Suiyan Province, where Japanese penetration was halted four months ago by Chinese troops, consternation reigned last week. Clarioned Suiyan's Chinese Governor General Fu Tso-yi: "We shall countenance no threat to the integrity of this province!" He mobilized and reviewed the whole of Suiyan's military might "in tribute to Chinese soldiers slain in the 1936 defeat of the Mongol horde." To Suiyan's rebuke, China's Nanking Government added another. Declared Wang Ching-wei, chairman of the Kuomintang (National Revolutionary Party) and onetime Foreign Minister: "Nanking is fully determined...
...tung were in their second month of creeping approach to Sian, close but hesitant to strike. So much money had already been spent by Nanking in bribes to regain Sian that it seemed a shame to have to spend shot & shell too. In the city was enigmatic General Yang Fu-cheng, erstwhile accomplice of the kidnapper. Nanking continued to figure that Yang had been or could be bought, gradually became alarmed last week over whether he could deliver-i. e., could get the Young Marshal's officer-butchering troops in hand within a reasonable time...
...George Fitch, contributed to the dispute by arriving in Nanking to say that, so far as he knew, the persons principally concerned (Dictator Chiang, Mme Chiang, Brother Soong, Adviser Donald and the Young Marshal) got out of Sian only by a 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...
...Donald, who has been attached at various times for a number of years to both Kidnapper Chang and Kidnappee Chiang. They alighted amid fog and semidarkness at Sian. Rabble soldiery on the airfield held hundreds of flaming torches. These were the troops of too-little-noted General Yang Fu-cheng...
...last week Dictator Chiang could boast that every province in China had answered his call. Notably the famed but for several years retired "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang showed up. together with the Big Three of North China : the "Model Governor" of Shansi, General Yen Hsi-shan; Governor General Fu Tso-yi, provincial chairman of Suiyan; and the latest admirable and exemplary governor produced by unpredictable China, General Han Fu-chu of Shantung.* They were said by Nanking officials to have promised the Dictator they would stand by him in case of war with Japan...