Word: sian
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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...
...reading some 50,000 words of his private daily diary covering 1936. In Oriental eyes there was nothing preposterous about all thisidnapped Premier & Generalissimo's extremely businesslike and beauteous Wellesley-graduate wife, Mme Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling), left Nanking courageously by plane for the kidnappers' lair at Sian in Central China. With her flew her brother, T. V. Soong, Chairman of the Bank of China, and that enigmatic Australian "adviser," William H. 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...
...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...