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...tung were in their second month of creeping approach to Sian, close but hesitant to strike. So much money had already been spent by Nanking in bribes to regain Sian that it seemed a shame to have to spend shot & shell too. In the city was enigmatic General Yang Fu-cheng, erstwhile accomplice of the kidnapper. Nanking continued to figure that Yang had been or could be bought, gradually became alarmed last week over whether he could deliver-i. e., could get the Young Marshal's officer-butchering troops in hand within a reasonable time...
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 up from Nanking and dined festively. On flying back to Nanking, highly diplomatic Counselor Peck said it was "partly correct" that some 21 U. S. citizens in Sian were being "held as hostages" by the Reds, but that General Yang had been nice about saying he would arrange for them...
...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 in and around Sian during the purge which...
...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 at Sian. Rabble soldiery on the airfield held hundreds of flaming torches. These were the troops of too-little-noted General Yang Fu-cheng...
Roughly speaking, the situation was that around Kidnappee Chiang 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...