To Singapore—and Hospital—for Job Singapore, July 30.
After cycling across two continents in search of a job in the Netherlands Indies, a 22-year old Rotterdam youth, Marinus van Mastrigt, li seriously ill with malaria in the Singapore General Hospital.
Two years ago, Mastrigt graduated from a Rotterdam technical college. In his quest for a billet he cycled through Rotterdam for a year and a half, But jobs for technical men were scarce.
Six months ago he asked a shipping office the price of a passage to the Indies. The fare was beyond his means. Outside the shipping office, in the glare of gaudy posters proclaiming the glamours of the Indies, Mastrigt looked at the cycle "that hed carried him through Rotterdam and wondered if it would carry him across Europe and Asia to tropical Holland.
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