Word: sian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orthodox Government circles much credit was taken for the bombing and almost total destruction of a city called Weinan, 45 miles from Sian, scene of the kidnapping. It was contended that the frightful destruction of Chinese lives and property in Weinan had intimidated the kidnappers in Sian. Exactly the opposite was the claim of Australian "Adviser" William H. Donald, who had advised both the Kidnapper and the Kidnappee in Sian and holds a most ambiguous position. He claimed that the Government bombers, but for heavy fog and snow over Sian during an entire week, would have dropped bombs with indiscriminate...
...Sian official for Texas Co., one 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...
...were a few hundred troops of Kidnapper Chang and around them were a few thousand troops of General Yang, who might be considered as having highjacked the kidnapping. At much greater distance were thousands of troops of Kidnapper Chang's main army and also Nanking Government armies rushing toward Sian, while Nanking bomb ing planes of U. S. pattern wheeled ominously...
...false teeth she had brought in her purse. Next thing China knew, Generalissimo Chiang, Mme Chiang and Banker Soong all joined in sending the most positive orders to the Nanking Government that its forces under War Minister General Ho Ying-chin must not approach any nearer to Sian, and they halted in their tracks...
...enemy and may also shoot me. ... As you, Chang Hsueh-liang, have rectified the mistake [kidnapping] at an early stage and the crisis has not been prolonged, I believe the Nanking Government will be lenient with you. ... If I made any promises to you or signed anything while at Sian it would amount to destruction of the Chinese Nation...