SINGAPORE: How to Catch a Millionaire

Out of the jungle 30 miles from Singapore one morning last week stumbled a tired, filthy, quaking figure. Inquisitive Singapore detectives found Rubber Magnate Eng Hong Soon singularly unhelpful. By following the underworld rule of silence and paying out $20,000 ransom, Eng managed to emerge alive from the hands of one of the kidnaping gangs that have lately been making life miserable for Singapore's 100-odd Chinese millionaires.

In the past ten months, kidnapers have grabbed six millionaires and three wealthy children. One eleven-year-old boy is still missing after seven months, and a merchant named Koh Eng Pang bled...

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