STATE IN MALAYA
AGREEMENT WITH BRITAIN.
(British Official Wireless.) Rugby, April 30
The Colonial Office announces that an agreement to define the friendly relations between his Majesty’s Government and the Raja of the Mohammedan State of Perlis in the Malay Peninsula was signed on April 28.
Perlis is the most northerly of the nonfederated States in British Malaya. British suzerainty rests upon the treaty of 1909, when all the rights of Siam were transferred. It adjoins Kedah on the south-east, has a coastline of 25 miles on the west, and is elsewhere bounded by Siam. It includes the island of Langkawi. Rice, rubber, and cocoanut are cultivated, and tin is mined. Kangar, on the River Perlis, is the chief town. The area is 316 square miles, and the population is 33,000.
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Southland Times, Issue 21072, 2 May 1930, Page 7
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