Mr Moto Solves a Mystery!
J. P. Marquand – Pulitzer Prize Winner & author of Mr Moto visits Wostwag in 1934:
1.Same
Inner Mongolian Itinerary as GJ in 1935, visiting Prince Teh-Wang
2.Lent
Free Brand New Buick Limo which Teh-Wang
greatly admired.
3.Buick
eventually given as a present to a grateful Prince to curry favour, as well as free passage of Wostwag’s trade monopoly of a 750-monthly caravan of camel-laden ‘goods’ through his lands from USSR into China
4.‘No
such thing a free lunch’! – So, why did ‘shrewd’ Purpiss offer Gareth free transport in 1935 – what was in it for him (& was Gareth, his ‘piece
of fresh’)?