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...aren't images that go hand in hand, but half a mile down a deserted road - in the middle of a tropical rainforest - lies a small patch of England's Berkshire, complete with paddocks, stables and riding trails crisscrossing the lush hills. This is the domain of the Bukit Timah Saddle Club, and it's where, on a weekend morning, the scions of Singapore's great and good trot by on their steeds...
...No.32 Jln. Timah...
...Singapore's Bukit Timah race track the British wet their upper lips with gin & bitters and kept them stiff even when Miss Papillon, a 70-1 long shot, romped home in the third race. That was bad, but the news from across the Johore Causeway to the Malayan mainland was worse...
Victory was no longer the question. The opposite choice, death, would have meant the useless slaughter of civilians. And so General Percival made the hard, the humiliating choice. He went, as directed, to a Ford Motor plant at the foot of Bukit Timah, a hill where, earlier that day, there had been bloody fighting. There, at 7 p.m., after some palaver, he signed away large pieces of the land, the power and the pride of the British Empire...
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