Families of 21 to Benefit by Trust Fund The families of the 21 members of General Chiang Kal-shek's bodyguard who were slain on December 12 last year at the outbreak of the Sian coup, will benefit largely from a trust fund, Being founded by Madame Chiang Kai-shek: The whole fund will come from profits from the publication of General Chiang Kal-shek's diary from December 12 to 25, the period of his detention at Sian, which is being widely published, together with a ong introduction by Madame Chiang.
This fund had its beginning yester ay when Madame Chiang was pre~ sented with a draft for U.S, $5,000.00 taken to her by Mr, Hallett Abend and Mr. Anthony Billingham, China representatives of the "New York Times," who motored to Hangchow accompanied by Mr. Hollington Tong.
The "New York Times" and the North American Newspaper Alliance purchased exclusive world serial Fights, outside China, for the price named above, The American news Faber reading public is already familiar with the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang's, personal, versions fof the Sian coup, for the "New York Times" on April 16th began the daily publication of 3,000-word sections of the manuscript, which is about 80,000 words in length, Madame Chiang retained exclusive publication rights in China where the manuscript will soon be published in Book form." Eventually it will be published as a school book, and wilt be made compulsory reading in every school in China, Madame Chiang also remained exclusive book copyrights for the rest of the world, Last week she accepted a proposal for an American edition of the book rom Double ay, Doran "& Company, New York publishers, who cabled their offer to Mr. "Abend for transmission to Madame.
All of the profits from all editions of this diary will be put into. the trust fund, and will, this hoped, not only care for the widows and aged parents of the 21 men slain, but also educate their orphaned children until they can become self-supporting.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.