Word: pahang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trackless mountain jungles of Pahang, largest and wildest of the Malaya states, are the special preserve of Sir Abu Bakar Riayatudin Almuadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdullah, one of the largest and mildest of Sultans. A robust, paternal, fun-loving man who deplores violence and loves to dance and sing with his people, the Sultan of Pahang was shocked and hurt by the support his people gave the Communists when the Reds began guerrilla warfare in Malaya after World...
Sheltered, fed and supplied by villagers in the interior, Communist guerrillas spread over Pahang like a plague of locusts, giving the Sultan's demesne a reputation as the "blackest" state in Malaya (where black or white signifies terrorist or safe areas). British security forces and government propagandists were getting nowhere; the Sultan decided to take matters into his own hands...
...Last Roundup. Several weeks ago the Sultan started his final tour-through the Temerloh district in central Pahang, where Communists were still active. Dressed in Bermuda shorts and bright sports shirt, he was greeted by idolizing and contrite villagers. They cried: "Ampun, Tuanku, beribu beribu ampun" (Forgiveness, Your Highness, thousand thousand forgiveness). In each village he warned that his amnesty would end with this tour and urged the villagers to purge themselves of Communists...
Last week in Temerloh the Sultan celebrated the collapse of one of Communism's last strongholds in Pahang. Only a few scattered terrorists remain in all Pahang. "His dancing and singing," said an admiring British official, "has been more effective than a couple of regiments...
Married. The Sultan of Pahang, 48; and Habsah Binte Lebai Mat, 22, amusement-park dancing girl; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. The sports-loving Sultan, bound by Moslem law which limits a man to only four wives at a time, divorced wife No. 4 before marrying pretty Habsah...