Adelaide
Ferry Marquand (Nee, Hooker)
In August 1935, NYC Socialite friend of GJ, Adelaide Ferry Hooker (brother-in-law to John Rockefeller III), happened to be in China on her way to London on the Trans-Siberian Express, She took a detour to Wostwag at Kalgan & stated Lloyd George:
•[She met Mueller a day
after his release and who was]
; ‘a kind of silent intelligence man
keeping track of
what goes on for the German Government’. - Right idea – Unfortunately, Wrong Government!
•Of Wostwag she stated
it: ‘was really a Russian Company trading with Mongolia’.
•‘This ‘peculiar’
transport company was intending to
move out of Kalgan... [as] the Japanese were intending to go into Kalgan in a few weeks time and take over a large portion of territory in Northern China.‘
1941: Adelaide & husband author, J. P. Marquand