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...fact the most powerful man in Eastern Asia had been kidnapped last week by one of his potent and ambitious countrymen, a Chinese who not many years ago was under treatment in the Rockefeller Hospital at Peiping for addiction to opium. Kidnappee was the Premier of China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, the military conqueror of his country not many years ago (TIME, April 25, 1927). Kidnapper was "The Young Marshal," Chang Hsueh-liang, son of the late great War Lord Chang Tso-lin who was assassinated by Japanese agents in their greatest mistake of this decade (TIME, July...
...detached the Generalissimo from his soldiers, an operation involving treachery by numerous persons, if not hundreds, for all soldiers in China ought to be the Premier's. If the Young Marshal had demanded say $50,000,000 ransom money, the whole thing would have been orthodox, for Mme Chiang is of China's great financial family, the House of Soong, and if they have not got $50,000,000 they know how to raise it on a few hours' notice "for the welfare of China" from the country's richest class...
...went on to describe how the kidnapped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had been attempting to divide the armies an lessen the power of Marshal Chang Hseu-liang, former Manchurian warlord, and stated that if harm befell Chiang Kai-shek, a state of anarchy would ensue that might retard for 25 years the development of China...
While the spirited young Spanish people continued last week to exterminate each other , the Nanking Government of the venerable Chinese people commenced a bribery experiment noble in motive. That stanch Methodist, Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, turned his other cheek toward Mongol and Manchukuoan forces which have been invading Suiyuan, the strategic Chinese province north of the Great Wall. To those invaders who would transfer their allegiance to China, he publicly offered the following bribes, described with cultivated euphemism as "rewards...
Aviators of the invading forces complained that to desert with an airplane is certainly worth more than $6,000, but otherwise the scale of bribes was esteemed just. Another itemized scale announced that Premier Chiang will pay $3,000 for an anti-aircraft gun; $900 for a tank; $300 for a machine gun; $9 for a rifle and $6 for a pistol...