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As predicted five months ago when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek returned from his kidnapping at the hands of General Yang Fu-cheng and Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, (TIME, Jan. 4), Kidnapper Yang last week announced that he was leaving the country. But not in disgrace, not as a prisoner. Kidnapper Yang let it be known that he had accepted a commission from Kidnappee Chiang to “investigate military and economic conditions in the United States and Europe.” For pocket money and traveling expenses it was an nounced that the Chinese Treasury had given him $1,000,000 Mex ($300,000).
He will sail June 29 from Shanghai on the President Hoover. No time limit is set for his return.
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