GEORGE TOWN: It was a significant and historic marble plaque with hand-beaten lead lettering discovered among the ruins of the bombed-out St Xavier’s Institution (SXI) building after World War II.
But when ex-Xaverian Datuk Loh Hoot Yeang discovered it in 1945 after clearing out the bomb site as a contractor then, he did not think much of it.
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