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j . v*. • • A ' \ ~Allegations that* two Mat* Mou suspocts were murdered in cold blood by Konya policc in & remote pert ox tho Kikuyu roaorve ere contained in c replsl’t subnit ted today to Sir Evelyn B-ring, the Governor of Kenya, by an Irish lawyer, Mr. Peter Evans.Tho report contains swom atatenents by eight Kikuyu witnesses alleging that on April 18th two prisoners were taken to a place on tho N ' Gong-Kijebe rosd^ on tho edge of the Rift Valley and about 25 miles north of Noin&bi. It is alleged that tha two prisono/s were taken behind bushes by native police and in the presence of a European officer, when they refused to admit membership of tha Kau M a u .. . . . _

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Mr. Evan3 said todsy that this was the first of several score of incidents whict he was investigating for the Kenya African Union. I .ATT CHESTER GUARDIAN

The Government of Kenya today declared Mr. Peter Evans, a barrister, a prohibited immigrant -..nd asked him to nako immediate arrangements to leave tho colony. TIMES

Ti»cj doath penalty in Kehya kas boon extended to persons trafficking in firei.rma. or committing any v.ct likely to assist the operations of terrorists or impede security forces, Ir . Whyett, the /.ttorney-GofteTal announced rt'-'T meeting of the Legislative Council today. TIMES

"One of the things we'have to deliver to the peoples of Kenya is the well-known principle qf British Justice. That will not be in anyway trmpe red* wi th" , (Hi’. Lyttelton, speaking to correspondents in N airobi^ MANCHESTER GUARDIS

The Kenya GvVcmuout has banned tho Labour Trade Union of East Africa, which claius to have a membership of nearly 2,500.

TIMES

Mr. a . L. d'A Hopkinson, Minister for Colonial Affairs, stated in - written reply:

"At the inquest held on Elijah Njeru Gideon on January 30th 1953, the presiding magistrate found th?t the deceased had died on January 29th from shock resulting fr r . multiple injuries inflicted by beating. It appts.r3 from the record of the inmost th.;t the beating was carried out, under orders, by A3ko*i \ who were not called os witnesses, with a view to obtaining inf or: u tioa ;.s .to the where about 3 of hidden firear.r.3 used by ? & .u Mau g*ng. Vh«ra was evidence of past tubercular infection which medic-.1 opinion declared to have heeled and not to nave affectod the decaosod'o ability to withstand shock. Tto.ro is no suggestion in the records that tho fact of this preiious infection was known to those who ordered the beating or tli030 who carried it out. I-^NCHESTSR GUARDIAN.

The V.' .r Office announced yesterday th .t it hed been decided to establish an Eaot Africa Co:~m aid as a separate command with direct responsibility to th<j War 0*fice , and thvt tho Qu-en had be in pleased to a oprovcm**ho immedia te appointment of Lieuteru-.nt- Gwrxor 1 Sir Gworge Cxskine as Command ar- in -Chief, East Africt ,with the temporary ranK. of G^n-ral.................. Tu»sc changes willplease those who have felt that the situStii'n in Kenya defends a second General T«,mplcr to handle tho rdlitary aspect of tho emergency ala^g tho lin^s used successful!:, in M-laya.

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I r ^ T i n ^ X ^ r X ^ £ & i T ^ U ° D ? M t U r l c a

and-very general approach to the p?o“ ?a*r% " ide

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tt>‘0Tom f‘ ?sorr S u ■ aurii ™ tu“ * a^ d b o r r o w amending

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penal code.

For sever£il

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J i T a S i V m 8i “ E « t nS i ? ? i h,b ac* ^ « of united

r a t f i ^ R M ' S ^ w w - ’poxitical raprecentftti on w^rt objectivec.

among itsservices, and xaain declared

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incrossed

9 th: TheMr. '.Vindlc-y, siid inActing Chief ilative Cocnissiorw r

broadcast * ~ * -*'-1 - — * - *the Union

SU™ .0/ th0 U U «al ***** oigonTsetions^pro^crlbedWin

to Africans today th&t the real organiser- behini wore the Kikuyu - "bad kikuyu. ^ a n y o f ^ n w o r f

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E H £ H £ gm tnis country. AIANCK 3STER ‘GUAEDI-Aj;

I Boiabay) Lr.Union, which

said today that the ben » c a a p i i u e ' t b . • ontish imperialists on Africans in kanv, T' i i t

f ” ?f? th3t « * • ‘-an followed s. recent^equost''by th-* union^fora publir- inquiry into "litx'ociLioR rm-iitaH r,-r union lorof law end order'1. nca^iit.ed r,y G o w m ^ n t foxt,es

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Luuruabi, b«n:-ral-secret r> of the Ker^n *frie«n w-'° Proscribed yesterday by the Kr^nyi W r n a e n ? ,

An official statement ie successes yet achieved i were recorded last wo«k, fir the greatest nonbur during "Operation Ep3or." " Operation Epson'* was a fusiliers , the Efevonshii Legiiuent , and the King's and 1 crge numbers of the

su<; d tonight announced that the gre test gainst the :iau Ji-.u terrorists in Kai ya when a total of I25*were killed. -By

those casualties were inflictedof

wnich was ^Launched nine days 0..........combined acti on by i* o f £ho Lancashire e rvegmont, the Buffs, ^£he.Konyn

vf^iCCnw^i^ lo s ’ saPP°rted by police ivilcuyu houu guard. TIMES

s a i i L ^ T o T r v n ^ " 1 *5° l3t the B U c k Satchj f ron Korea direct to relieve the Is f^

Battalion, the Lancashire TusiJiers. t TIMES *'

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I ■n e s s BTB.VCTS KHiYA 6 JULY 1953

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KENYA POLICE: Required by the Government of Kenya for one tour of two years with possible extension. Commencing salary, etc. according to previous experience in 3cale £767 rising to £1,092 a year. C-ratuity (at least £162 after two years' service) payable on satisfactory final completion of service. Outfit allowance £30. Unifonn allowance £10 a year. Free passages. Liberal leave on full salary* Candidates, aged 20-30 snould be at least 5,r7?T' without footwear, have normal vision without glasses snd be of good education. Candidctcs with previous United Kingdom or Colonial policc experience w ill bo considered up to 35 years of cge. «.dvorti3£iant in SU5DAY EXPR3S3

Nearly•10,000 Africans wore rounded up end questioned by nore than 1,000 troops, police end Kikuyu Hone Guerd3 , supported by a squadron of armoured curs, today in the nost intensive sweep of Uirican and Asian locations ever mounted in the Kift Valley. Mart than 1,000 of the Africans weie taxen to a special transit cocp on the edge of the town for interrogation by teams of interpreters. About 300 Kikuyu men were said to have confessed to taking the Meu Leu osth under threat of death. TIMES

In the closing stages of "Operation Buttjrcup" in the fort Hall dialrict the 39th brigade killed 56 terrorists, wounded four and captured 17. TIMES

His own view (I-.r. Blundell) was th t - solution of the probloms of S«st' ..friea would bj found b> ranking themselve-3 into a largo? unit with Con'trul Africa rather than by trying to bring ".bout : limited E..st Tricon federation.

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8th: Qonoral Sir George Erskino nado r. progress report tod:y on the result of "Operation But ter cup” which is noi ondod.Figure3 covering the period from June 23 to July 5 show the number of M°.u ISsu Killed in the whole operational ” roa os 241, those captured 193, security forces md other loyalists dead 28, weapons lost five, recovered 14. Included in tha Mau li&u casualties are 201 Killed in "Operation Buttercup'’ in thu Port Hj-.11 * reo. TI LIES

10th: The R..'. .F. announced today th't in the first ten weeks of operations against the terrorists, four Harvard aircraft transferred from Bulaw-yo flew 133 sorties against 85 different I.’ou Mau targpts in the .'.berd.re 7 o\intains. They dropped 1,096 botbs and fired 69,000 rounds of ammunition.

:,:.NC:C5TER GUARDIAN

16th: Ur. Lyttelton stated In a written reply th t between the beginning of the em^rgoncy in K-ny: and June 30 , 112,529 persons weio taken into custody in cor.iw.cti on with the disturbances. Of these Id ,834 were released ir^aodir,tely on proving their identity, 53,30u wore released ^fter screening, 42,356 had beer, tried, raid 1031 fire on reread. Those not considered to be badly indoctrinated were restricted to their location in the reserve, where contact with th^ growing resistance to .*au I..-U a s s having the desired =iffrct. TAose* jtu l.riu ad ho re nt3 who wo re deeply c oioi-.it ted // ju Id p a o 3 t hi oixg a

special rehabilitation centres before their release.f'Ai'TCiiESTER CUAKDI^JI

19th: The first large-scale operation to cl_\.r up Nairobi uir.eeGen jrol " a skine csauuud gqraar.nd began before dawn yesterdayand continued today........ The oyer. ti on , nv.ed "Ratcatcher"resulted in scoi'es of arrests. Ti*eso dot.-ined include persons suspected of being *u w-u officials . nd 02th administrators. TlfcES

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Of 115.896 people arrested since the emergency started In O c t iS « ! 44^370 bed been tried end ^ / e e t r e l e . s e d after aoreening. During the two months ended July 15th, besnconvictad out of 9,450 triad under the emergency

have^helpod'terrorlsts^collecttvo^punlahmont^had^oen

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tkd Loalslatoro has adopted a motion by Iir. C. G. Usher, the Bu?opoen nenber for Uonbesa, that tr^truotlouinsnd the general u s a o f SngUsh as a lingua irsnco be actively

promoted by all practicable moans........

w v7 Awori an African unoffic ial monbt-r, opposed thai f : "■ 'Hfouiccd that Swahili was one of the 10 most w i d e s p r e a d languages of the woild. and it was spoken throughout aatt llrlca. The use of Swahili could not bo o.voidod -t.the present os nilllons of Africans could not oxpreBs themselvos

in Siiglish. T n -°

R-nlvin* to Mr. Blundell's criticiana, tho Attorney-General,H* Ja£n Whyott, spoke of "the torrent of criminal work ^airin* throarh the courts” . In the *e.9t two months no less than ton thousand K^u Hsu cases have ^eon brought Jofora t e courts - an average of ono case being. disposed ox ovory t

He 3Qid thv. adeauacy of thu emergency rogulations ? « U 9beitHbe fudged by § * n o « l 3rs.ine.who had autno risod hin to s-y ho was "cxiplotcly setisxied with th-m. Mr.

* « “ difficulties of ^ i n ^ o v l o e n c ^ i n s t

tne Iiau nau.

"T^e problem is ono we have had sincc 1916. Sinco wo fought Rriti-h administration to this country, ior nort; than 50 por cent of chat tino we have had reluctance by the 0 ith sccept tho benefits cf ltw and order and o u r ^ of li, tho prosperity which can stem i r o _ U except on theii own terms” . (Llr. Blundell in ths Legislature) TDC5 .

»»_ ? ind Mathu .loader of the aricon unofficial numbers in thn Legislature intinduced today a notion !t that in the ooinion of this council tho CjvoJnaent should leave l*ricans

aid oporot*,constitutionally -- colony-wide political

o r g a n i s a t i o n " •;

ii3w, with the Kenya

taTld SJsc” u « s - r t “ h U iov” with the 'Government. but had

function during an em ergen^..........

"7/1 think it .s our dumOcretic rit ht in a D iat^h Golany th-t ”w t remission ;-»nd eneofuragoiiant :to rorn -na

o p J a “ ,n o r^n ia , t l * through which wo con express our

fc<3Dlrations to the stato .

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PRESS SXTRACT5

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KSUYA AUK ST 1953

11-. H . S . Potter the Cuiof Secretary, sr.id in Legislative

Council rocontly that during ' jn spito of

' t e r r a s J; to ha bettor nrnsd,

Cioorly the W S S ^ t h * ^ .n i l i t l n P a d h o r J n ^ o f llau

E T S ? £ f e S T S J W K L a Uwould bo available to the*.:, it u* nu ^"* this aid has cone . • . ««

i disturbing feature of the Kanya so«n» is the « « o U n e ^ n to . relations betwuan tao aevorel r-.cea^arln^n^^

?to 3^opoan and tho Kikuyu. African* oipother t r l b £ t h * * *

^ ^ f ^ a J i ^ a v ^ h r i L ^ ^ k f r o - f a ' a ^ e t a i n , to bo

E ^ S k f f i M c S S

• ^ » ‘ S 5 ^ r S

to subversive proptgs-nd's.

g * £ i r J t a s s ^ Z £ ^ ^ W r ' ^ P k r

In S 3 & ; ir‘ K f i s * iar‘ c‘- forth. o b ^o t , if not Sat tfcs .vet hod a,

19th: Stack wora rounded up cncl con*tscatod in '^ ? .1*’^ r ]£ ''i n ' til 3j rz 1 1 w31L U cP OX*tGC. ± X*0»— «#hO Ii-»iAip -* *

and 3,000 I.IKuyu w-ic « xnnittriatad to th* reserves.European 3ottied area -nd xorcicx., f ' _: v,nt < * < c>There «!■□ iuatification for taose actions, but It

' nuostionohlo whether they serv.d thoir purpose in n.ni- .ain*,

es opposed to apnoding , violence.

Coliaotl-e pudiah^nt i« bo re0:>ilon the heads os thot:e vno init-ete i • It can ori yei'ia tiva ii‘ presented to the sui-iorer^ in Jthnv blatte ”iot the authorities who ounisn ther-i bu.terrorist* whi to*, forced the aotto,. to b . taken Hoc*

a & o f o fte o a g e n c y .

21st; ho ;® .noncha sard labour far I j r J W «* • ‘\ : ^ X L r lli i/ald that dofendod b> au , u . . Icorer Cav»

S Ca g “ ??^ ' r - ‘ o f 0 5 ’-itkuyu recently • ithaditr.istorvn«.stho 1/ju ;^|u c ith ^o y eaylns wr“ h Uln . .

a t-auoo. t u :-

22nd: brlsndlai* & £ * ter. . ^ ^ - ' Y ^ / t ' w r i a l f ' L

^ V i ^ 1 oni,W , hoau

.relioyad o f .h l a ^ n u .r t . Ho reason

r. st AVLcar. tl'e Mouiit

August 1953 {Continued 2 )

23rd: A resolve to help the Government to combat the onti 27th: A rosolution calling for the encouragement of inaigration of

at least 30,000 Europeans within the next five years and a ban on further Asian immigration except for key non, was also paesod, (Europoau Sloctors' Union delegate cpnference). The Government was also esked to break down the immigration barrier so as [to permit the admission of 50 refugee peasant fomilias from eastern Gercany for a pilot settlement scheme in the 01 Xalou District of the Rift Valley provinco , with Government loane for passages, education and housing. The proposer said they would givo the best possible example to Afric ns of how to work hard, and tbera was no fjar that they would bring Communism into the country. TIITES

28thr The Kenya European Electors1 Union today asked the Government to tako away the land of known I. u Mau adherents and retain it for loyal Kikuyu tribesmen. Hr. .7. B. Havelock, chairman of the Europoan elected members of the Legislative Council, said at the union’ s conference in Nairobi, thct a bill to this effect wss being prepared................

What appears to be a copy of thu letter received Inst week, by the Konya Govcrnuunt from Dodan Kimathi, the I.au IJau lc dor, is published today in the Swahili news?:.per "liabari zs Duniart in Neirobi. KiMathi clai*:ed that there was no such thine c9 *-cu I.'au. Be said the poor were the I.au i’.au. Poverty could bo stopped, but not by bombs or other weapons. He added:

"The policy of the Konya vern*.,ent of driving people awny without good grounds, end of confining them to their reservos, has rosultod in a thousandfold increase in Kau !itu in the forests. Youn^ men and wo..on, end even old persons, are in the forests because they ire 1 afraid of being killed, or badly beaton, Dr confined as they :-.ro by the policy of the K;nya Government..^If colour prejudice i 3 to remain in Kenya, who will stop subversive ction, for the African has uyo3 , oars, end br. in s ."

30th: Today moro than ever before, the whitj settlors aro abewildered people. The maintenance of special privileges

.appears to be t.io touchstone of their policy. While thiir leaders, no douot, profess to promote a 3onso of security for ell races, ’ir. Blundell did not hesitite to tell the delog.tes that Europeans in Keay: would endeavour to maintain the "special rights" which tiiey now enjoy under various statutes. From the non-European point of view the settlors' conference did not nanif'est the sligntost change of heart in working towards ft common Constitution to ;xe t the espi ret ions of the two import-int r^ces in Kenya - namely the African and Asiancommunities. OBSERVER

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FEESS EXTRACTS*. K E N l iSErTEMBER 195:5

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thfSTurt because of Insufficient evidence. ^ 4

Nairobi City Council - a now revised its V * n pro gratae , ;

provided°adequatenhousing for all Ifricane 5So are without

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o t- u fluolvinc to Embu and Meru tribesmen working The Government is applying w ^ueeti na the possessionin Nairobi the special re8ala^ ° f hf ! ^ o a l l i e d only to

^ w s ^ w j s n s i s / ^ t s s r s s ^ n

f o ^ s e e f i g r ^ .m o i t tne“ e °h iStory of eaployment cards, or

for an employer to engage them. . txj/les

a +-■,« African NCO's have been remanded A European sergeant tw0 • * « a ?. ar«re oi murder of two by their commanding o j*1 ®®*'ao-vear-old Sergeant Jeremy Alle-n Mau Mau suspects. Th<®y ° t^ ib iw o t Lalcwige, and Lanceof the Kenya Regiment, Serge.ant £ Kings AfricanCorporal Lakurian Neikandaro, both or Qn SaturdayRifles. They w e « arrested by military p o ^ , Qto

after more f w e J ° f hof two Kikuyu* in Kiambu reserveallegations of ^he murder before the Governor oflast May. A l l e g a t , British barrister, Mr. Peter Kenya, Sir Evelyn Baring, b y a Brit1 & as aEvans, wno was subsequently deportprohibited immigrant. MANCHESTER GUARDIAN

atrip^wbere tfe fc o T c ^ e fe a r t h ^ o lfc fr a s b J . f J a S w d ’ to

deny gangs food. TIA£S

An advance party of n o O ^ro o p ^w ill be nere byt i t tne reinforcements ^

national service men. TliES

Kenya's Member for Comae rce search’ of* \Seric-nis In the way to the United S t a t e s ^ s ^ ^

plant at ions^ ^e ngi nee ri .»g, and secondary industry*obbERVSR

Another African anJ i " ^ ^ r^ e5tsir6me1i^ng°^together ''. A active in Kenya; its name is Utsi^ m . ^ M*mbaSa tonight tuat

Kenya Government sP°k®®man bave been imprisoned duringfifty members of the ?-igo tribe hav<b d g U ve 3the past week for Utsi activities. *ceQt oi Dig0 males

reserve twenty miles from ^ ^ 1 Government measuresare believed to nave joined - t t q1 Barjy new Igainst the ^tsi in c lu d e Jh e js ta b i wported and TJtsl is

be lie ved°not' to be connec^gd witb .an iau.

Pree’s i$xtract» . / Septenber 195}froy« • v- £ \ $ y . (floBtlDueC‘ 2^

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15th i Mr* Hughes. (D istr ict-CoaaifisiOher, Nyeri) in his half-yearly report says that only one-fifth of the narrow based terraces

•were completed, under the soil conservation programme compared with the first -half .<a£ .last yaar». and, leas., tnAn half the acreage of pasture cleared. Before the emergency pyrethrum was proving a profitable crop for the gikuyu but this year none had been planted, and one nursery had had to be abandoned. Mr. Hughes says that the story of tea is similar^

- Thife is .another cash crop the development of which was- important to th e Kikuyu agricultural economy*

‘ .MANCHESTER GUARDIAN

15th: It is henceforth illegal to carry within the city boundaries in a passenger motor car moro than one member oi the Kikuyu, Embu or Meru tribes. I f more taan one is found in a vehicle, moving or stationary, every person in the vehiclc will be guilty of an offence and the vehicle can be confiscated.

MANCHESTER GUARDIAN

15th: The penalty for consorting with terrorists who are :npossession of firearms hat; been increased from life

* imprisonment to death. MANCHESTER GUARDIAN

17th: A preliminary report to the Nakaru county couroil tracesmany present ills to the prevelance cf the .squatter system, by which labourers are given small farms on which to feed

t themselves and their families. Tne report says that as the labourers' main income under this system is derived from his shamba (farm) the main J nterests and endeavours of himself and his family are centred in it ; his ; mental outipol: remains concentrated on the land. This leads to a sense oi possession of the land, which not being factual leads to resentment and envy. TIMES

17th: Removal of Kikuyu from settled areas has evidently oc^n effective in quietening those areas. About 100,00c have been sent back to the reserves, the bulk, oL them being those who refused the order to be photographed 1 * February. Since then African "screening" teams have been-a-t work. These spend up to 14 days questioning batches' erf Kikuyu labourers, It is calculated that about 60 .000 remain to be” screened" . About 25 out of every 100 are deeply enough implicated in M°u 7au to merit being sent back to th3ir reserved, ant? five are charged in court with offences sucn as oath administration- Repatriation is regarded.as a severo penalty because oi «he hard and unsettled conditions,in the reserves. T^IES

17th 1 In treneral there is much le.»s tension among Eu.”o;jtan i rms c.i.this side of Aberdare than in the Kikuyu reserves on t h e o . ' 0 . side . The farm* themse’J vet* well r.cn dri'’r'-‘to work in tractors * xj ■ pistols in their bjlts, just as th^ frontiersmen of a former generation tilled the soix wauh a rifle strapped to the olpugh. •*' ■I'lffiEb

17th: Exercise Snowball, in which surrendered Mau Mau are returned to the forest to bring back others, nas produced meagre

results. TTlvIhb

22nd: . . . . . . .d i s g u i s e d taxation is introduced to rough 1 i_.esderived frgm paying tue African producer priceb below we:.i,‘prices for his crops.......... , .the African ^armcx find~ «nsystem difficult to understand and feels resentfuL t U he is paid less for his maize than European farmers. T:.i.'^s

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2£ad! ;??!“ V ? , , pri noilpaUy “ > Africnn area, bui mention must be3 European-owned tea estates round Kericho. These

represent many million pounds of investment end provide exceptionally good labour conditions for Africans. Tae*r

S * 8 ? Ii .eS “ J}2!i £ro 5 20.000 to 60,000 acres is just one more of those benefits to Kenya which are being delayed by the emergency. TIMES

24th: The Masai districts of Narok and Kajiado were todr.v declared special areas under the emergency regulations. District commissioners, sitting as magistrates, can cjlcvciso High Court powers for certain offences, subject to confirmation cf sentences. The powers are similar to those giver, to cagj states or the Kikuyu reserve at the o it set ol the emergencv, There is no suggestion that Mau Mau is spreading to the J"asai tribe.

TIMES

24th: A new police order issued today forbids any Kikuyu, Meru orEmbu tribesman to ride a bicycle in Nairobi unless the machiie has his name and address painted on it .n letters naif an inch high. GUASTIAN

26th: a conference of colonial Powers south of the Sanaru tc frame a co-ordinated policy to improve thejr security was suggested in the Central Legislative Assembly by Sir Alfred Vincent, an unofficial Kenya member. The Administrator, Sir Robert Scott, agreed that if the metropolitan powers tno.^ht the conference should be convened it would be within the scope of the High Commission to make arrangements. The Administrator tcid the Assembly that 10 employees oi the High Ccmm.isjion had been dismissed on conviction of participation in sc0bvorsi/(6lOt)ivi tl^S » r-ij

28th: Another terrorist wounded by poisci'iec arrows was oaot ured.. ., ,

TIMES

30th: The Governr.ent decided today that the r?patriation Kikuyu to the tribal reserve is to cease because in ^resent,

circumstances it is impossible tc absorb more tnau the100,000 who have already beer, re pat elated or wh? have returned voluntarily or compulsorily. The decision h?s bee i taken, says the official announcement, Dearing in mi.ia that lax^e areas of the Kikuyu reserve are either prohibited areas or unsuitable tc bear a further influx of population. The, intention now is thet any Kikuyu whc fall to pass the "screening1 teairs now operating in the Kift Vail^r end Nyanza i-rovinces, and whn are required to be removed c.i security grounds, w ill ce accommodated at caips and eupZoyed on public works, on roads, and land rehabilit;ticr.. iiikryti rejected by the '’screening’’ t eaxs wi.il be placed temporarily in transit camps whila arra&geoents are meat- to a : ’ ect -^lom'to public works projects, Tlta^S

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1st: Consultations ere now in Pr0ff0B® ^ ^ ° ? n0fh?hf 6? ^ t n d o r of

children.

In iiuaha district they aw 28 tfbfSboutpopulation. The originel nun. d£iDortod or have voluntarily twice that, but many hove been duportea, 01returned to Kenya since the energency began.

The Tanganyika Government is in ^ I b c s ^ o t saei^that^he y are what no do with the remainder. It doee not TIMSSan imediate threat to security.

* : Slr.CluthaUaoken.la, tha “ *Hew Zealand expediti om-ry rorce n ™ British East

couple tod a survey « *?» S 1 ? L S roiucst of the BiltishAfrica , u n d e r t a k e n six -^Jths g ^ bout one l n

^ ^ W L ^ ^ o ^ e ^ ^ l l n d . u 2 S f w

o l ^ o a ^ n g nSt e'ven been taught to w- U. TILTS

th: Tho agraeixnt ™ . [

sf that c c t u y , has slg - ( (Kenya Govern'-ent

of tee industrial * * » • « • “ “ * ° ° f °” nt Corjorct I o n a n d

U n l i o v f /u d : 000^ ^A-ric« I n d u s t r i e s as from Octobcr i .

Unilever recently sent a J ^ ^ ^ h ^ b o a r d of B*a?rAfrica c o n p a n y ' s f a c t o r y in . l v e x p e n d i t u r e on now plant anI n d u s t r i e s have h g r « e d to a -r j P i s‘ o . . .p h e s i s e d

aochin.ry at a ° os* f h ^ i n c r ^ s e d enploynont. cannotthat immediate re silts, ouch . . _ designed for thebe looked for, hit ewitablep an materials, and this willmanufacture of margarine fro.-.loc. be tho first step in an expansion p r o g r a m .

V * thft ' rj'tct can best be developed by drawingIt i s Kenya Uganda, end T a n g a n y i k a for such rawon the r e s o u r c e s of Kenya, ugun , i t o r i e s > and by m a t e r i a l s as a r e a v a i l a b l e iin <e r Q g t ^ r l c a I n d u s t r i e s 1

d i s t r i b u t i n g t h e products ^ t h e y c a n be soldf a c t o r y w h e r e v e r u i those t e “ ^ “ i p t h e Iridu s t r i a l l l m a g a o e a t

' e c o n o m i c a l l y * ..ithin t h e P r a v e r n m e n t a n d consumers o fCorporation will represent the Governmen^^ ^ f #

Kenya; t h e c o l o n ^ ^ ^ e ^ °an- K eavent and m a n u f a c t u r e and s p e c i a l i s e d k n o w l e d g e o f m anagem ent .

e x p e r i e n c e d s t a f f .

6 t h : Two co m i) a n i 8 S d 0 ^ J h o f ^ n two areaa^of^Sirobi as pert of an

opiratical fo'aSSc? fiftean thousand to twenty thousand

" i l l e g a l 11 A f r i c a n s from t h e c a p i t a l ...........

The newly appointed hood of ^ p l e 'out!

T i m m e r m a n , s a i d . . . . . * we c a n g e t d o w n t o t h e J o b o f

& 3 i S I “ 9 uau its w rroriats". MAKCKSST’ffi GUARDIAN

14th: * 1 1 details of the ^ ##the port of vistorday in a ffhite Pcpor. TheTanganyika were published y« U.K.Governnent fromMutual Security Agency is to l 9|tt0^ lturp.,rt Account, the United Stotos portion'o 4 £370,000 for th. port£“ ,020,000 .-or the port of I.ombasH mo T IM S

of Tanga

9th: A detailed sociologic&X survey la to boin the Mocbasa craa on behalf of tho Roytl Dutch Shell group as « preliminary to the proposed establishment of

• a new . 1 1 -refinery in liacbsen* mmatavoal

9thl The cost of the eaorgency in Kenya during the first tan months ended August last, amounted to a littie over

an .......... The .figures show that over half the. emergency■rpenditure was spont on the i:«ny police. ■

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:-16tb‘: It remains a puzzle why so u. ny ordin ry Kikuyu continue :I . - to shjiltar sod food tho ^ u * 'u gangsters, as they

undoubtedly do. Intimidation plays a big p :rt , .’ another potent influence seens to bo a firn belief that

, i!au 2Jau will win in the and. T r 3 3V ■ • • * *

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19th: A loading Unitod Statos soil company, the name of which has not ho an disclosed, is to carry out ^n oil sur ®y in Nertham Kunys with, f view to taking up devolopnont

licences there.

This ie a result of four weeks' visit to the United . * ■■ States by Lr. Arthur Hopo-Jonos, ramber ^or conaerco and industry. He said that :ir. Eugene Black, president of

1 the Ilntemationnl Bank, would visit ivonya next yo^r, and ilr. David Rockefeller, he id of tho Chase National Bank, hopd

also to come . ." * J *'

1' ; nothGr result of i-r. Hope-Jonas’ visit is tho likelihood that two big American concerns will establish factorios in lConys. Thoy aro a motor company, planning for the assembly --nd part manufacture ox vehicles at l-«basa. end

a clothing manufacturing f i rr** ii*

19th: Kikuyu women in Tanganyika >rc to bewav as Kikuyu men. Thi3 was announced in the T-ng-nyiKa official Cozottc , published todjy in 0=r 8 , Sslattj. in an'order called "registration of persons order 1953 .

T**o registration of Kijtuyu women has been found advisable by tho Government to 3top possible contact

with Kau Mau, or the passing on of j ^ ^ i ^ t e r r t t o p y the wives of Kiiaiyu already deported fran th^territory.

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It had been decided to institute closer policing and build new police posts in other areas besides Kikuyulond.

MANCHESTER GUARDIAN

The presence of Kenya police in the African areas is a permanent and not a temporary met.sure. TIiES

Sir Evelyn s a id * ..."A bill will shortly be introduced providing for the forfeiture of 1-nd hold in Kikuyuland. . .

I ANCHESTER GUARDIAN

The Government believes in the futuro of European farming.In fact it considers that the greatest asset Kenya possossos is tho soil of its upland country on which are nost of the European farming areas as well ds the whole of the Kikuyu land unit, and to the west the Nandi, the K i s i i , and theKipsigis ........ It is the Government's intention to developSuropoan agricultu-e to the greatest possible extent and asquickly as possible.......... Big companies have been prepared toinvestigate and in f ct to st?.rt, industries right in the middle of the emergency. I hope that once security returns this industrial development will be enhanced. TIKIS

As a result of tho dismissal of thwir petition for leave to •appeal to the Privy Council, pi-no ^rc being nado for a resumption of the -.ppefl to the Kenya Supreme Court by Jomo Kenyatto and the five others convicted with him for offc.ices relating to L'au Mau. TIIES

Tho cutting off of food supplies to the L'-.u Jfr-.u gangs - by clearing a mile-wide strip around the forest and intonsive petrols and anbushes ct the fringss, and by removing maize crops and closing i.-.frkets - h,s bean most effective.

L'AFJnESTIE GUARDIAN

A now emorgency regulation empowers the administrative officer in cht.rgo of the Nairobi district to impose economic penalties in order to maintain tiie resistance of loyal Africans to intimidation. The administrator is ompowcrod to suspond hawkers1 and pedlars* licences, order hotels and shops to be closed, and suspend taxi licences. TIKES

.............. A start has been m:de with the eroction of wirefencing in the African locations to give better control, :nd with segregating the Kikuyu from other tribesmen. The ground­work for a new system of close administration of the locations on the "village" system, similar to thet in tribal reserves, has been prepared. ' TIirTS

0»~. European farms tho Kenya Government is to set on foot a more secure system of employing Kikuyu labour; labour will be employed on contract 2nd housed in compact villages. In land questions successful efforts are baint made in North Nyeri to reform the system of land tenure and to discourage land fragmentation. TIMES

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leti eh paper, the hot,war ia an unequal battle. Twelve-British and African battalions, an R .A .F . bomber squadron, 12,000 polio# and almost 20,000 Kikuyu Home Guards (70 per oent of whom, incidentally,

had at one time taken the Mau Mau oath) are ranged against fewer than a thousand men* total effective f i t t i n g force of Mau Mau.

Less than half of them have fiream s. , (Colin Legu«) OBSERVER

let 1 Mr. Blundell, leader of the Buropean eleoted members, has beenhaving preliminary Informal talks .with the H indu arid Muslim groups,

and his reputation and liberal outlook are standing him and his colleagues in goo* stead. It is generally aocepted among a widening

: oircle of Europeans that a real share of responsibility for the .- direction of affaire must be provided for Asians and Africans if the

• -constitutional plan is to be supported by them, &it equally it is'' noo**aary to gain the acceptance of the Buropean oonanunity, wh* insist

thai'1Ctoya*«ust oontinue to be British in oharaoter and that the Buropean must continue to guide and rule,. , fjvey also want assuranoes and safeguards, however diffioult to provide, that Afrioans, while aooepting the offer of partnership and oooperation, will not oontinue to think in future in terms of self-government on the West Afrioan

model'. TDDS5?

4th1 About 2,000 Mau Mau terrorists have been driven from the jungles and forests of the Aberdare mountain range in the past three months by concentrated sweeps by British and Afrioan troops and almost^

continuous RAF bombing and machine-gunning, TIMES

7th1 In his budget speech in the Konya Legislature last week, Mr.-Vaseysaid that, beoause of the emergency, the defioit for 1953 was likely to amount to more than £2mn. By June 30 next year it was estimated that the general revenue balanoe will have dropped from nearly £9m to £4*750,000. The annual contribution from general revenue to develop­ment funds had to be discontinued this year, and it was unlikely that

it could be resumed for "some years to come". If a development programme at the present level were to be proceeded with, more loan money would be needed. •. Mr. Vasey made it clear, then, that he was ffoing to seek finanoial assistance in London, "either by grant or by

loan, or both", TIMES

7th» Mr. E.A.Vasey, th© Member for Finance in the Kenya Government, hasarrived in England to put before the British Government a grim equation,

Only on three conditions oould Kenya keep afloat uxxtil mid-1955 without completely exhausting its reserves. These are that the costs of the emergency do not increase* that the revenue does not fall; and that no fresh development schemes are in itiated .. The first two of these conditions will not be fu lfilled . It is already possible to foresee increases in the actual costs of measures to meet the emergency. The

present high revenue will begin to fall when any decreases in pro­ductivity oaused by the emergency - now rather more than eighteen months old - begin to be reflected in the tax returns. Customs reoeipts have already started to decline, but so far this is due to

general causes.rather than to the emergency.

P robably it is with the third condition, the possible pace of future development, that Mr. Vasey will be chiefly occupied, for here the British Government can reasonably decide to give some aid ..........

Any requests for such aid deserve a more than sympathetic hearing.It iB as well, however, to understand d e a rly the principles of the

relationship between Britain and Kenya which such requests imply.They are an illustration, which should not be forgotten in Kenya by those who still demand total freedom from Colonial Office control, of the extent of the oolony's necessary dependence on the home country. Already there are five badly needed battalions of British troops on

duty thars, and i f monetary aid is now to be given the British

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eye*t»e«ee« WtvMft 12 ahd 14 yoare of m o , and the judge aocepted ♦hei# «rld«tM«| la ep*te of AiMfrepehelea, aa sufficiently boneluiive til aaxiafy Ain that tha daae wee ptored* TIMES

14th i A ooftstituanoy meeting her* laat night adapted by an oraffwbelming

eejofity a resolution approving In principle tha statement of policy euba&tted by Mr* Mlehaal B1wade11 ahd expreaeing full oodfidenoe in him aa member for Rift Valley and aa loader of tba European eleoted mambere Of Legialativa Assembly*

• 1 • ♦Only eighteen votae ware recorded against tha motion, mainly by member*

of the newly foaped White H ighland* party, wbioh aeeks self-government in the B ighland*, MAHCHESTER GUARDIAN

14thi The tyanda eleotrioity board la %o M ^ort power from the Owen Tail* to Kenyi. Thio haa been agreed on in ^flnoipla by the Governmente of Kenya and Ugandaj the details hare eiill to be eettled. TIMES

- 4 '• •l5th» The itatement of polioy made by the European eleoted member* 1 organis­

ation made pttbllo orer the week-end marks a pertohfcl triumph for Ur. Miohaal Blundell, the European aettlora* leaderi le haa emerged triumphant Over theextreme White eettlora. Mr* Blundell and hie

oolleague* hare now demonetrated onoe for all that the idem of European self-government for Kenya, orf for that matter, It Government eleoted exoluaivel'y by Europeana, ia out of the queation* ?© that extent, the polioy etatament haa given comfort to the vaat majority of non- Europeans*

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The atdtement haa had a mixed reception* The extreme eettlers Who are ' now organised into a "White~H ighland* Party" are already queetioning even the limitod reforma auppoeedly designed to meet the aspirations of all rabet* On the other hand, there are indioations that the sohems will not meet the aepirationa of both Africans ahd Asians* Already the leaders of the Asian community have made it know?* that they will not aocept any oonetitutional ohanges whioh de hot assure equality of repreeentation not only to them but to ell raceB.

The statement of polioy marks a olimb-down ih the attitude of the European oommunity, but at the same time reflects their desire to

maintain the status quo. Many non-Suropeans have expressed the view

that the &ainten*noe of separate sohools for Europeans, the demand for the transfer of more power to organs of looel government with which the settlere are mostly assooiated, and the enoouragement of European

immigration to the exolUalon of the immigration of ooloured nation­alities are attempts dealgned to strengthen European domination.

OBSERVER

15th1 The trial of 11 members of a Kenya screening team, who oame to Tanga­nyika in search of Mau Mau suspects among the looal Kikuyu settlers, has roused public interest. While there is general publio eatis- faotion in Tanganyika that prompt action was taken, there ie some feeling, especially among Afrioana, that the sentences are not commensurate with the seriousness of the orimee*

Brian Hayward, the 19 year old leader of the team was sentenoed to three months' imprisonment and fined £ 1 0 0 * . . . . .Hayward, who pleaded guilty, aocepted full responsibility for what had happened. Medical evldenoe corroborated stories told of the suspects being tied up with leather thongs round their neoks and of some who olaimed that their ear drums had been burnt with oigarettee, OBSERVER

l6thi In a statement on policy, issued 48 hours after a declaration ofprinciples announoed by European Unofficial (elected) members of the Counoil, Afrioan members declared that the Mau Mau emergenoy must be given "the highest priority possible to bring it to a auooessful

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° f **£ ▼tww.'but differed from them in certain

■ v 'T h L f f Iw 5 er £led^®d theTDaely®8 to support the Government "fully " to ^ Q “ * * • u emergency to an end. MANCHESTER GUARDIAN

^ ,hat h m * ” * * * • " ' of th . prohibited^ th« ^ r d a r e and Mount Kenya forest* waa planned to "smash

the hard o ° » of Mau Mau gangs who oontinue to defy British and $ ' i ^ A T r W n troops. 1 epokssman for the Bast Afrioa Command Headquarters

^ J5? ^ d#f lwi0n t0 USe h*avy Li* 001* bombers against Mau Mauerr*riSti * * 4 be*n taken at British Cabinet level.

.It waadieo^osed from headquarter# that four Linooln bombers had

^ ^ tolonf from Aden and would begin bombing "almost imme­diately on thd thick forests and jungles of ths two mountain areas.

fr- w . > * * : ^ new «»«rgenoy regulation iseued yesterday provides for the death

” designed or likely to endanger life . Forothsr sots of sabotage the regulation provides for a maximum sentenoe

a fin> of Another new regulationextends to the Meru and Bmhu tribes the restrictions on movement ai.ready Imposed on ths Kikuyu tribe. MANCHJOTER GUARDIAN

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- £ r I h J \ .2 v S f i Harvards in air operations against Mau Mau terrorists

i s * W - : ■ * L i t t .t S “ ! “ * th' ibe*4" * -iH to into action

It is explained that the decisioh to use heavy bombers against the n: +*■.. .. Mail Mau was made at Cabinet l e v e l . . . . . .

4th (Uganda) Battalion, the King's Afrioan Rifles, which has been operating in Kenya since the beginning of the emergency, has been

ordered back to Uganda, military headquarters announced t o d a y . . . . . .n the 4th Battalion was brought to Kenya at the outset of the

jj - ^ , emorgenoy Uganda was left without troops and this position 1 appal’antly is not considered desirable, TIMES

?2ndr ^N airo bi oity councillor, Mr. Ambrose Ofafa, a member of the Luo- r .. Jrloe m d an outspoken opponent of Mau Mau, was shot yesterday. He is

in hospital and his condition is stated to be critical.......... Mr.Ofafawas one of Several Afrioans who took over shops previously tenanted by Kikuyu in the Kaloleni location, when ths policy for segregating the Kikuyu in Nairobi was put into sffeot. TIMES

~ 26tb* 4,. British Army captain accused of murdering ah Afrioan forestry

~T' 1"" ' • ! j 1'k0r Was bere today -to have told a oompany sergeant-major, •- that hs could shoot anybody he liked - providing they were black".

‘ 0erald Seiby Lewis Griffiths, 43, a Regular A m officer jfthe Durham Light Infantry attaohed to the King's African Rifles, pleaded not guilty before a general court-martial to the murder of an African named Ndeegwa on the Nyeri-Mweiga road on June 11. He was

..........aa^d tOv. have fired a Bren—gun burst into the baoks of two African. civilians and told themi '’You can soream, you bastards! When you

' Jkilled my horse in Nanyuki he screamed’ for a data sight longer."

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26thi Opening the oase for the prosecution, Lieutenant-Colonel R.H.Cov: - Parker, assistant director of Army legal soi'f'ices, East African

* that Captain G riffith 's company was engaged in an operation in 1 . r 'flyeri d is t r i c t . . . . . .O n the day before Company Sergeant-Major TC.P.-^Ll-ewellyn, of the 7th (Xfenya) Battalion, the King's African R:ii

reported to the aooused with a platoon for order. He asked V:.

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accused specifically what were the orders with regard to shootin*

2 L « Thf ». got, .aid Colonel^owell-Parker^was that he oould shoot anybody he liked so long as they were

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Captain Griffiths in srvidenoe said that he held a briefing the day

• / " * i f * ! 0ld C*S*M- Ll^ e l ly n that he could ahoo^anybod^

l *1“ if th*y were P-W*D- (P ^U c Wo^shJ ilid thit h Wf* J S 1" * * ° f *Pe#oh* S c r i b i n g the incident +J examined the passes of the three Kikuyu. Those ofthe old man were in order and he was sent away. The passes of the other two men were old and out of date. There was nothing about the forestry department on their oards. He thought that thev had come £om the forest. H e handed them back t h e ^ a s s f s , ^ i £ d them to go and sit down on the left-hand side of the road. "They

hi 5° left-hand side, but went on at a shamblJng trot eading for oover. I oalled out "stop" in Swahili. As they did

not, I opened up with the Bren gun. I think I fired a burst of •ix to eight rounds. Both fell down badly wounded." ...........

Griffiths told the court that the attitude of his battalion

commander with regard'to Mau Mau kills was the same as that of

h ld t o i* ° f oomPetition. a** his commanding officerthat their battalion had to beat the record of the

8 lfrican Ri^les, before their battalion went 5s r e ^ S d Gri^ i t h s said that he personally had given askaris

terrorists killed, and some company commanders gave 10s, This practioe was known to his commanding officer and

approved. The 23rd. Battalion had a scoreboard barometer of k ills .

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Xtti Pour Royal Air Foroe Linooln bombers dropped 500 lb. and 1,000 lb.bomba on Ifeu Mau hiding-place* in the Aberdaro Forest, west of Fort

Hall for several hours to-day. Three Linoolna also attacked targets in Eburru Forest, north^rest of Naivasha. MANCHESTER GUARDIAN

5th: Church leaders in Kenya headed by the Bishop of Mombasa, the Moderator

of the Churoh of 8ootland, the Mjthodiats, the Salvation Am y, and the Christian Counoil of Kenya whioh is an organisation of all Protestant bodies in the Colony, today expressed "grave conoern" at the situation

disoloEed by recent oourt-cartial evidenoe that monetary rewards were offered for the killing of Mau Mau men. In an open letter to the press

they said;

"Tfe record our abhorrence with whioh we read published records of

evidenoo given before a civil court and a rooerrt court-martial, 7fe

know our feelings are widely shared, Jfe know that stern directives have been isced by his Exoellenoy the Governor and the ccmr ander-in-chief,

Tie believe that in oertain quarters there have beon signs of improvement, TTe are, however, still gravely oonoerned at the situation and we shall oontinue to bring to the notioe of those in authority thB neod for a

radical change of attitude and aotion on the part of mny of those responsible for tho re-establishment of law and order.”

MANCHESTER GUARDIAN

6th: Tho K nya Indian Congress, whioh exeroisos oonsidornble influenoe among non-Mislim Asians and is usually closely linked ir. outlook with India,

has issued a statement of policy.. . . . . . . .Tho Congross statenont ofpolicy whon oor.pared with European declarations, rovoals wido differences, especially in political aims, whioh will ml® a gonoral

settlement diffioult to achieve but will probably provide loss difficulty

in reaching agreement on the specific problem of sharing portfolios

among races whioh is at present tho nain objective of the European

elected members.. . . . .

Tho statement of policy deolares that tho ultimato form of sooioty envisaged by Congross is basod on throo main principles - first, solf-

govornrr r b within the Commonwealth and a Govo mmont composed of Mla.t3torc responsible to a popularly eloctod legislature; sooondly, a

ooiamon roll aasod on adult suffrage without tho reservation of soats . in tho Legislature for any raooj and thirdly, no discrimination on

grounds of raoo, religion or co lo ur ,..,.

Tho resorvation of the Klrhlaods settlement aroa for ftiropoans should bo

abolished, tho Ordor in Council ropoalod, and any African allowid

to buy, soli, own and occupy ai$r land outsido tho African rosorvos. On immigmtion, tho Congross is oonviasod that tho abscrptivo capacity of tho oolory has net reached anywhore near saturation point. The noods of tho

oolory. in-toed of tho race of tho applicant, should bo kopt in view,Tho last ite i in tho long otatamont is that no political union with ottor East African territories should bo considered until Konyn gots

av/iy frcn tha raoial basis of politios. TIME3

lOthi The Goveramont announced in tho Houso of Cotnnons ycetorday that it had dooidod to givo £11 millions in financial aid to Kor.ya. This was the result, caid Mr. 0 , Lyttolton (Colonial Seorotary), of a roviow ho had

n»do wit a tho Govomor of Kenya, Sir Evelyn Haring, and tho }.fanbor for Finat.oo, Mr. Vasoy. MANCHESTER G.ARDIAN

11th: Terms of reforonoe (of Court of Inquiry) will bo:

To inquire into and report upon the allegations whioh wore mado

at tho trial of Captain Griffiths in regard to:

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(i) the offering to soldiers of monetary rewards for feu feu "kills",

*■} • * llibltlon ot •oor*b*mrd« reoording official and unofficial kills and other aotivitiee in operation* against feu feu;

(iii) the f oetering of a competitive spirit among unit* in regard to "kills" in anti-Jfeu feu operations.

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12thi The Kenya legislative Counoil today approrred leglelation authorising the

forfeiture of laud belonging to feu feu organisore and leadors of gangs.This measure oannot beoc*e law until it is approved by tho British Colonial

°ret*ry, Mr. Lyttelton. It contain* provision- for an appoals tirbuml.

The Legislative Counell also approved a bill aubhorisii* the raising of a loan of £2 million from tho Colonial Development Corporation for African

housing. Another bill approved inpoeed a special tax on the Moru and fcobu tribe* beoauee of the spread of the feu feu movwsent in their aroas in Central fonyn. MANCHESTER GOABDIAN

12th: Thp legislature today approved legislatioh authorising the forgoituro of land belonging to feu feu organisers and gang loadors. Tho moasuro has to

bo approved by the Uni tod Kingdom Oovormont on the advice of the Soorotaryof State..............Several African and Aaian unofficial members oritioisodand opposed the proposals. An Afrioan, Mr. J. Joromiah, said that what the Ud unoil m e being asked to do w s to onhanoo tho oourt sorrbenoes, and he mnted to know whether British justioe allowed a porson to bo punishod twooo for ono offenoo. land forfeiture would also punish innocent

persons. Mr. W. W. Awori pleaded that what ho oallod tho "spirit of vengeance bo not entertained. TIMES

• °-c* the loading oounscl for tho dofonoo, oomplotod hissubmissions in tho Konyatta appeal after addressing for eight days two

judges of the Supreme Court sitting in an appollato rolo. Ho submittod that

tho oaso against Konyati* failed booauso "thero wes too much foroign mattor

in it, and after that foreign matter had boon struok out tho caso was trivial

in the extreme..........Tho hearing will bo resumed on Monday but tho court hastis»uod that Judgment is unlikely before oarly in January. TIMBS

^ u?° ^ lf sottlod satisfactorily, could bring the Colony'stroubles, including tho omorgenoy, nearer to final solution, Afrioan

unofficial members of tho legislative Council say in a statement issued

here today. Commenting on tho recent state mo nt of policy by tho EUropoan oloctod members organisation, tho^r agroo that Kenya must oontinuo to

develop constitutionally under the Colonial Office, but state that Africans in Konya should have diroct olootions to tho Logislativo Council on a basis

^ oembor for each quarter million population. Short of that, half the

Afrioan^ 8oata on ^ c°unoil as at prosent conrtitutod should bo filled by

Thero aro many points in tho European olootod members’ policy with which Afrioan membors agroe, twt thoy add that "thoro aro a few points of maior importanoe on whioh we diffor fundamentally." First, thoy list land policy,

ioh, they say, has been and will bo tho prinoipal bono of oontontion in Konya polities. *hilo oxisting "disproportion" in land holdings romins

no it her tho highlands Order in Council nor tho rativo lands trust ordinanoo should bo regarded as final or saorosanct. "It i 3 our view tint all good

“ s in Sonya should bo immediately dovelopod to tho highost poak of thoir oapaoity to produoo with a viow to aohioving a quiok inoroaso in the natioml woalth and raising tho standard of lifo of all inhabitants of this country.- ■ufrioans cannot bo a party to a policy whioh merely sooks to protoot thorn as a oommunity in thoir already highly oongostod areas" o«i gives no soopo lor tholjr playing a part in tho dovelopmont of tho "rioh lands now lvine vacant in tho highlands..." TIMES

Collection Number: AD1812

RECORDS RELATING TO THE 'TREASON TRIAL' (REGINA vs F. ADAMS AND OTHERS ON CHARGE OF HIGH TREASON, ETC.), 1956 1961 TREASON TRIAL, 1956 1961

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