•Invited on
trip by German Journalist, Dr Herbert Mueller.
•Gareth
assured by Mueller; “Absolutely Safe, No Bandits”.
•After kidnapping,
Mueller unusually released after two days
as captive, and
–gave the only
account of the episode, claiming the Japanese
instigated the kidnap by putting them on the wrong road.
•Ransom later
obdurately rejected by bandits …
•Gareth was tragically
murdered after two weeks on very eve
of his 30th birthday -12 Aug 1935 …