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...Nanking Government besought Chiang Kaishek to take back his resignations, but stories were getting about that he had sprained the base of his spine, or anyhow one of his legs, while kidnapped, that he had to take a long rest, that his brother-in-law T. V. Soong* was going to be Premier of China...
After further fiddling around, Mr. Soong announced that he was not going to be Premier, and apparently Premier Chiang slipped back into all his offices, including that which brings in $3,500,000 per month from opium. All China was meanwhile being violently jolted out of thinking about the recent kidnapping and into thinking about the drug evil. In one of the most lurid scare-campaigns in Asiatic history, coffins were hastily knocked together and balanced on top of Chinese city walls, while local authorities shouted that anybody caught selling, buying or smoking opium was going to be executed beginning...
...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...
...kidnappers had let him go partly because they had been much moved by 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...
Straight to her kidnapped husband rushed impulsive Mme Chiang and made him comfortable with a new set of 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...