ABSTRACT
Malaya bulks largely in the eyes of the world for its size and population. For many years Malaya has produced about one-third of all the tin in the world, and there is no likelihood of the proportion being perceptibly lessened. As regards rubber, the proportion is even greater, unless artificially reduced by Restriction, and can easily be maintained or even increased as the great spaces of Pahang are planted up. A sense of proportion in another respect is also a desideratum for Malays. To-day British Malaya has a special interest, and that by no means in Britain only, owing to the new naval base whose construction has been begun at Singapore. Again, the Malays, though all one people ethnologically, are divided into many small States, each with its own Sultan and its own interests and organization, besides those common to the Federation and, more loosely, to the country as a whole.
