AWARDED £378,000.
ADVENTUROUS ROMANCE. WHITE MAN AND RAJAH. LOXDOX, December 1. Romance, and adventure lay behind an arbitrator's award of £378,000 to the Duff Development Company against the Government of Kalatan (Malay Pen.). Thirty years ago, an Englishman, R. W. Duff, who was in command of native police, quelled a rebellion in Pahang in the Federated Malay States, and chased the rebels form Kalantan, where he became friends' with the Rajah, who ruled amid impassable jungles and swamps. Duff formulated a scheme for the development of the country. The ' Siamese Commissioner opposed the idea, but tho Rajah secretly summoned Duff to tho palace at 3 o'clock one morning 1 and signed a partnership, investing Duff : with extraordinary powers which no white man previously or since had held. , Duff formed laws, dispensed justice, started tin and. silver mines, and cultivated thousands of acres of rubber trees. Siam, under a treaty in 1909, transferred Kalatan to Britain, and Duff in 1912 surrendered his powers to Britain in exchange for commercial rights. He has been ten years claiming damages, asserting that the Government's failure to_ extend the Malay State railway to Kalantan was a breach of the agreement.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 292, 10 December 1925, Page 7
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195AWARDED £378,000. Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 292, 10 December 1925, Page 7
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