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...planes were barred from the province by a Sino-Russian treaty. Old China Hand Paxton, who had come to the Orient first with his missionary parents at the age of two, called his staff together for a conference. They decided to trek out of embattled Tihwa by truck and jeep, over the age-old route across the mighty Himalayas to India...
Paxton's chauffeurs managed, with wire and rope, to get the jeep to a mud-hut village. There the local garrison commander, who had taught himself English in order to listen to BBC broadcasts and read the Reader's Digest, put his men to work and all but rebuilt the jeep overnight...
...occasion, Gleysteen was arrested and charged with "signaling out to sea with the lights of his jeep." He was held for two hours in an ice-cold waiting room where he did push-ups to keep warm while Paddock argued for his release. Said Paddock: "The fact that it was not quite dark and that the jeep was pointed inland would seem sufficient to disprove the charge...
Toward sundown one August day Fairservis began to look for a place to camp, and spotted far in the distance what seemed to be a town. As his jeep-borne party headed toward the spot, more & more mud-brick buildings rose into view above the horizon. Shortly they stood before an imposing ruin whose walls surrounded an area of at least 30 square miles, whose buildings must have housed and served a population...
...glare of floodlights, a big four-motored C-54 dropped down onto Berlin's Tempelhof field, turned off the runway and swung around in the wake of the yellow jeep with the big red-lighted sign: "Follow me." At the unloading stand, its crew climbed down and workmen began unloading its cargo of coal. The Berlin airlift had ended...