On Oct 1, 1931, the editor of The Sarawak Gazette published an extract from the Manila Bulletin. Founded in 1900, the bulletin is the Philippines’ largest English language broadsheet newspaper. Published under what the gazette referred as ‘Fiction Column(?)’, the title of the article was “Only one Filipino lives in the British
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