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well dinner about the Ashdang
April 16. [[/underlined]] Went to American Consul. Found [[underlined]] George's cable [[/underlined]] dated April 14. also his letters. [[underlined]] George Roll [[/underlined]] is taking [[underlined]] vacation trip to Europe [[/underlined]] Went to Bank got 175 Singapore Dollars for $100. A,. or [[strikethrough]] als [[/strikethrough]] 1 Singapore Dollar = 57 cents Ford cars everywhere and for every purpose. [[underlined]] American cars here [[/underlined]] about [[underlined]] 90% [[/underlined]] few English, or French. 
Tomorrow a mail [[underlined]] boat [[/underlined]] Dutch leaves for [[underlined]] Batavia [[/underlined]] next Co[[?]]rs Wednesday. But a smaller [[underlined]] "Van Swoll" [[/underlined]] leaves Saturday. I shall take it. Leaves me time for sightseeing and motoring. Went to [[underlined]] Raffles [[/underlined]] hotel. Well situated also near water but 
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farther off. Much larger than [[insertion]] the Hotel Europe [[/insertion]] Europe but [[underlined]] noisier. [[/underlined]] dancing etc. Pretty Palm court. [[underlined]] Sanitary [[/underlined]] arrangements [[underlined]] first as primitive [[/underlined]] as [[strikethrough]] at S [[/strikethrough]] Hotel Europe. An Indian very black guide in European Clothes [[strikethrough]] dro [[/strikethrough]] accompanied me in a short drive around town This afternoon another [[underlined]] drive [[/underlined]] around [[underlined]] Singapore [[/underlined]] Island with. [[underlined]] Roskog, [[/underlined]] Rubber plantations. Many owned by [[underlined]] Chinese. [[/underlined]] Went into [[underlined]] Chinese Rubber factory. [[/underlined]] Very [[underlined]] smelly [[/underlined]] stuff if some small growers who do no washing and bring their unwanted flat brown rubber sheets in [[underlined]] with organic matter putrefying. [[underlined]] This gives lower grade of rubber. Best [[underlined]] Crepe rubber [[/underlined]] is made by coagulation