Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ China's Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, having retired to his birthplace near the coast and refused to use the telephone or open letters or telegrams for a fortnight (TIME, Jan. 18), was joined last week by Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang (who recently kidnapped the Premier and released...
Sian, the interior city in which the "kidnapping" and series of conferences with Communist leaders occurred (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.), was lavishly hospitable, through its satrap, General Yang Hu-cheng, to arriving Communist leaders of varying importance and to U. S. Counselor of Embassy Willys Ruggles Peck who flew...
Eleven prosperous Chinese, arriving in Nanking from Sian, said: "Conditions are deteriorating. Hundreds if not thousands of people have thought it best to leave Sian, even through the bandit-infested countryside and in bitter cold."
Recently-kidnapped Premier Chiang rested in quiet retirement this week and his recent kidnapper, young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, although pardoned by the Nanking Government (TIME Jan. 11) was still under such extremely heavy guard last week that it was difficult to say whether or not he was in custody...
He was once more the "guest" of Banker T. V. Soong (TIME, Jan. 4) and last week played around the Nanking Country Club golf course accompanied by soldiers carrying eight submachine guns "in readiness." The city of Sian. scene of the kidnapping, was reported in unconfirmed dispatches to have been...