•The embarrassment to
the Japanese by being publicly implicated with Gareth’s murder in Mueller’s German articles
resulted in effectively no
further territorial expansion of their Chinese ‘empire’ until the ‘Rape of Nanking’ in 1937, arguably the start
of WWII – allowing Wostwag to
continue to ‘operate covertly’, probably supplying weapons to Mao on his ‘Long March’ &
trading very profitably
without hindrance.
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