• Of all the pages in our Manchukuo Incident book, I scratched my head & wondered why he chose this particular one to quote, so as one does, I decided to consult the then fledgling Google on the word;  ‘Wostwag’. • Almost unbelievably, a single reference came back from the Public Records Office in London and from the online précis, it informed me that British secret service records had been released into the public domain, literally a few weeks before, indicating that the Brits had known from 1929 that Wostwag was a trading front of the Soviet Secret Police.  • Furthermore, Mr Purpis ‘the king of Kalgan’ and head of Wostwag ‘was considered one of the cleverest & shrewdest men in the Far East’ & associated with the ‘Cheka’; the same man who had freely supplied Gareth with their car at his disposal! Pure coincidence or perhaps with more sinisterly intentional, I knew not?