The Federated Malay States, a group of four states under British protection, occupy the Malay Peninsula extending into the China Sea and separated from Sumatra by the Malacca Strait. The four states have a total area of 27,540 sq. mi. The total population in 1937 numbered 1,961,397 inhabitants, of whom approximately half were Malays and the remainder of Chinese, East Indian, and Japanese extraction.
The principal industries are the production of rubber and the mining of tin. Copper, timber, rice, pineapples, palm oil and kernels, and gold are also important products. The States are administered in federal matters by a Federal Council with the governor of the Straits Settlements as President. Each separate state is ruled by a native sultan with the advice of a British resident. On Jan. 26, 1939, Sir Alam Shah, who succeeded his father, Sir Ala idu Suleiman, was crowned Sultan of Selangor. On Mar. 4, 1939, Sir Abdul Aziz took the throne as Sultan of Perak.
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