Word: sian
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...regrettable that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek still opposes our ideas. So long as he remains opposed he shall remain at Sian in order to think it over at his leisure. I personally guarantee his safety and hope he will agree with our policy...
...Chinese could imagine nothing more poignant than the reported fainting and prostration of Dictator Chiang Kai-shek's wife as she sat beside a radio in her sumptuous Nanking home and heard her husband's kidnapper, the Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang (TIME, Dec. 21) broadcast from Sian in central China that his men had not only kidnapped but also murdered China's Dictator...
Presently the Nanking censor passed dispatches saying it was only the Japanese Domei News Agency which had invented "that appalling falsehood," the story of the broadcast from Sian having said the Dictator was dead. The kidnapper had indeed broadcast, said the Nanking Government, and the modern electrical transcription machinery of Nanking Central Broadcasting Co. had recorded what he actually said. Before quoting his words, the Government called the Young Marshal and his troops "mere bandits," declared it was beneath the Government's dignity to treat with young Chang, and clarioned that for him to be killed by a Chinese...
...Nanking there were still plenty of Chinese generals left, and the Government bustled about getting off troop trains in the general direction of Sian. Ensuing dispatches grossly contradicted each other. In one of these the Young Marshal's friends succeeded in kidnapping the Generalissimo's wife and assassinated his trusted henchman General Chen Ta-chun...
...between China and Japan or a much bigger civil war than has raged in China for some years. The famed "Christian Marshal," Feng Yu-hsiang, who ranks as China's most benevolent and adroit double-crosser, could hardly wait to get in on whatever was taking place at Sian. "I will fly thither at once," roared the Christian Marshal, "and offer myself as a hostage to the Young Marshal for the safety of the Generalissimo...