Word: sultanate
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...Sultan's grand vizier and the majority of the chiefs or datus of Sululand wanted no truck with a female ruler or the strutting little Filipinos. A month after the Sultan's death, they met and elected his brother Rajah Muda Mawalil Wasit Kiram to the throne. But that did not settle the matter. The Philippine Government refused to recognize him, thereby saving itself a pension. The North Borneo Company withheld its land rent until the succession should be clarified. A Filipino judge appointed Dayang Dayang administrator of the dead Sultan's estate. Afraid of being poisoned...
Last week trouble was coming to a head. The will of the late Sultan was at last about to be probated. Sultan Wasit's loyal followers were sure that the Filipinos would try to ditch him to make the Moros, who are practically excluded from representation in the Commonwealth Government, into a completely subject people. In recognition that open hostilities were at hand, the Government constabulary in the Sulu Islands was reinforced and for the first time Moros were forbidden to wear their traditional arms, krises, barongs, kampilans. Many Moro datus, maharajahs, panglimas and imams retired to their secret...
Fortnight ago Dayang Dayang returned from a visit to Manila and Sultan Wasit went to see her. Then he went home and a few days later suddenly, like his brother before him, was called to Paradise. A "doctor" said he died of heart disease, but speculation was rife as to the cause of his opportune death. Opportune it was for Princess Dayang Dayang because Sultan Wasit, like Edward VIII, had not yet been crowned, and not having been crowned, his son, Ismale, had neither the formal title of crown prince nor a clear right of succession. Thus Dayang Dayang...
Peace in the Archipelago hung in the balance. Sultan Wasit was popular with the great majority of his people. If they once come to believe that Dayang Dayang or her Filipino friends conspired to poison him, Moros from Borneo, Celebes and Java can be expected to come to the aid of their brothers in the Sulu Archipelago. Then the day of the Moros' inevitable revolt against the masters they despise will be at hand, a struggle which the Moros, outnumbered and unarmed, cannot win, but in which they as born fighting men will doubtless take heavy toll of cocky...
Died. Rajah Muda Mawalil Wasit Kiram, since July Sultan of Sulu; of heart disease; in Maimbung, Jolo Island, the Philippines...