ABSTRACT
The country, like the Federated States, is in a very sound financial position; in 1924 the revenue was nearly eleven million dollars and the expenditure not much over eight million dollars. Though it lies right between Singapore and the Federated States, is traversed by the main line of the F.M.S. Railway and owes almost everything to the skill and industry of non-Malays, the independence of Johore is steadily maintained. Except for Kedah, which has about 30 per cent, of Chinese and Indians, mostly engaged in agriculture, these States have a vastly predominant number of Malays, who form about 90 per cent, of the whole. Consequently the proportion of true Malays is smaller in these two than in the other Unfederated States; but this is much more conspicuous in Johore, where the total Malay population only numbers 157,402 out of 282,234, leaving 124,832 non-Malays, mostly Chinese, as at the 1921 Census.
