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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1953.
Six Thousand Children At Circus
It was Children's Day at Olympis, London, when 6,000 boys and girls from 'hospitais, orphanages and homes attended a special malinee performance of Bertram Mills' Circus. Picture shows the children watching elephants perform in the ring.—Reuterphoto,
QC Speaks For 12 Hours In Defence Of Kenyatta
Kapenguria, Jan, 21.
MAYER'S AT 230-5:15 QUEENS PRINCESS 7.3090
MISSION TO U.S.
Paris, Jan. 21. Premior Rene Mayer and other high officials of the new French Government will visit Washington next month to appeat for con- Unued American financial aid and probably to call on President Eisenhower for | greater help in Indo-China.
Plan for the mission were arabunced today.
Publicly it was described as part of a campaign by France to find and expand markéis for French products
COED the threat of an economic crisis.
The group will visit Britain before going to Washington.
Informed sources said, how➡ aver, that the mission will go far beyond matters of trade. France, these sources mid, will probably ask, in addition to financial assistance and, greater help Indo-China, an in- creased voleo in Mediterranean affairs.
M. Mayer, these sources sold, will consult in London with the British Princ Minister, Mr Winton Churchill, in an effort to discover what M: Churchill discussed with President Eiren- hower on his recent visit to the United States.
M. Mayer, the sources added, hopes to line up the British be
int French requests for greater assistance in Indo-China and for a greater volce in the defence arrangements for the Mediter-
The British lawyer, D. N. Pritt, Q.C., today described the prosecu? tion evidence against Jomo Kenyatta, leader of the Kenya African Union, as "the most childishly weak case ever against any man in the history of an the British Empire."
He was concluding his open- Karumba, three
against
ing address and submission to Paulingei, three against Bidad the Magistrate, Mr Ransley M. Kaggla and one and a half Thacker, which had taken him against Richard. Achieng Oncko, two and a half days and almost four and a half against Fred 12 hours of continuous speak- Kubal and 13 against Kenyatta. Mr Pritt claimed that none of Mr Prill, whose voice was at times hourse with strain, listedem stood up under examina what he described as the nine ten as proving anything against "great cnimos" which the Kenya any of them. Government, had been able to offer as proof
Considered soberly, the 13 of Kenyatta's alleged incidents against Ken- guilt of the charge of managing yatla were "terribly thin." the Mau Mau terrorist society during months of preparations
He went oD:
azud almost two months of "Here he is the leader of a actual trial. Five other African very large political organisa- leaders ore also before the ton representing the largest
tho Colony- court on charges of assisting in community the management of the Mau charged with managing a subver- Live terrorist organisation, The The nine "great crimes" list-charge la made by a Govern ed by Mr Pritt were:
Mau
ment with all, modern resources
of
at its disposal, with months to get its case prepared and nearly
10 Act monthis
extra 10 evidence."
DEFENCE BUDMISSION
1. At e Kenya African Union meeting of Limuru, north Nairobi, in answer
to a chal lenge by officers of the local branch to derbunce the Ma Май Kenyatta denounced It
2. Kenyatta told
"three gentlemen, who
were pretty well paranoiac. they were not to worry about the Mau Mau." Mr Pritt considered
3. In a back-room of a shop leart the prosecution would have at Ol Kalou, near Thompson's brough: before the court was Falls, Kenyatta told six people evidence that Kenyatta had at- rot to use
forch intensed a Mau Mau inceling. so much making some people take some type of oath.
SONG BOOK
Mr Pritt said that what had been proved as a result was utterly trivial.
that the
"Surely if Kenyatta was guilty, the prosecution could have found at icast one document dealingt with the Mau Mau among the thousands of papers seized by police from Kenyatta's home?" Addressing the Magistrate meeting direally. Mr Priit concluded:
4. Kenyatta disclaimed all knowledge of Mau Mau at a meeting of Nyeri.
5. Kenyatta told a that it should "take a pinch of stuff.
suggest to you that this case should be thrown out for in Kenyatta's want 6. There lay
of jurimllction on two bouse a yellow cong book con-
for numerous taining two lines elating to the rounds Mau Mau
conclusively rounds for want of evidence." and
The Deputy Public prosecu proved by the prosecution to ter, Mr Anthony Somerhough, have no sinister meaning at all,
will reply for the Crown to- 7. There also lay in a roomTI
morrow and the Court is thea plack
likely to adjourn until Monday belonging to
for the Magistrate to decide
exercise's house a
book, else somebody
8. There also lay somewhere in Kenyatta's house a letter not proved to have bem written by Kenyatta, harmless enough in itself and written by someone In 1948.
0. Sonicbody published Ka grey hymn book" containing praise of Kenyatta,
NOT GOOD ENOUGH Mr Priit described all the accusations against
Kenyatta and the five Africans "utterly trivial, "
said
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Hille
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"a
whether the defence cuse to shawer.-Reuter.
has a
Detained On
Suspicion
The Toy Poodle
Earns The Most Dollars
Tho
London, Jan. 21.
miniature poodle has become Britain's No. 1 'dollar-carning dog. It has replaced the cooker spshtel an the favourite British dog in American kennels.
jay
The Kennel Club that last year's dog exports were a record. Two thou- sand four hundred went overseas 300 more than the previous year.
A club official said: "As £1,000
13 or
some. more times paid for
ал out. standing dog, the foreign
is con- currency obtained alderable. Alore than half
of it is in deliaru,
of last year's dog ports, 370 were miniature Doodles
and 204 cocker spanicis.
The most vainable dog
- exported ̄ ̄in 1952 -- was i
pekinese. wold 10 20 American for £1,500.
Retaliation
Measure
In France
It is disclosed that M. Pierre 1.Abelin, former Secretary of State for Finance, will travel to South- East Asia at the same time to explore the possibilities of sell- ing more goods.--United Press,
Paris, Jan. 21. The French Socialist Party today
pal its weight behind a make United States seamen sub- bill which, if enacted, would
jeet to the same treatment that Ferieh milors receive under
the McCarran Aci
The preamble of the bill, de-
Increased Defence Estimates
London, Jan. 21, The Governinent today asked Parliament to approve loans of £2,500,000 to finance increased production of uranium in South Africa and to boost output of this vitol clement in atomic energy in Australia.
The loans were part of Civil, Army, Navy and Defence supplementary estimates amounting to £108,855,930
more than the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Richard Butler, allowed in his Budget last March.
Earlier this month, the Aus- tralian
Mr
Supply Minister, Howard Beale, announced that, under a now 10-year agreement both
Britain
and America would contribute funds to a combined uranium development agency.
He said this agency would develop the run Jungle uranium field in Australia's Northern Territory.
Early last year, the British Parliament approved a loan of £3,500,000 for the South African
project.
Today's supplementary cati- mates came from the following departments:
Ministry of Materials £53,- 388,000,
Ministry of Supply £47,040,-
000.
War Office £35,000,000,
Export Credits Guarantee De- partment £14,018,000.
Foreign Office £10,000,000. Admirmity £3,000,000. Defence Ministry £10 (a
posited last night in the National token dèmand)—Reuter, Assembly, frankly stated that it
was in the nature of a retalia-'
tion against the McCurran Im-
--་
migration law which forces DULLES VISIT
TO PARIS
seamen, along with pli Ainsterdam, Jan. 21,
foreigners,
to swear that they Police here have detained are not Communists or have Swiss merchant and his wife, Folice records before they are auspected of fraud in Switzer allowed to enter the United
Paris, Jan. 21. about the
60,000 States. allegations. land involving
The newly-oppointed Ameri- Kenyatta
Swiss Francs, it was officially The bill is signed by the can Secretary of State, Mr John against
were worthless
collection
stated today. of
Sociales Party which, with 104 Foaler Dulles, and the now rulties. The irresistible con-
"We are expecting a Swiss the National Assembly.
Deputies, is the largest group in director of the American Mutual clusion from such a collection, extradition request at. any
Security Agency, Me Herold E. he sald, would
be that, even moment, the Allens Pollet Pat) McCarrant's fame and have the North Atlantic Court here "We do not envy (Senator Stassen, will meet members of supposing Kenyatta had any-
Chler, I. Asloot, told Reuter, thing to do with the Mau Mau
no desire to be French Mc- next month. before 11 was proscribed in
He said the reason for secrecy
Carrana, the bill stated, "but A North Atlantic Cotinell August 1960, he took the course, was that the pair were detained we feel it cur duty to preserve spokesman who announced this
freedom to set up when it was prescribed, of not only on suspicion.
In France today said the Americans would having anything further to do
retaliatory measures against discuss the Council's polley with with the society at all.
"They were nearly without any foreign country which its members. Mr Pritt spent most of his de- means when we arrested them." carries on discriminatory mea- They will attend a normal fence specch going minustely A Swiss Legation spokesman sures inadmissible between tree council meeting on February 3 through the evidence of most of sald Switzerland had not yot nations aru even more so be on the invitation of the Or- the 44 prosecution witnesses and submitted an extradition request] tween traditionally friendly.ganisation's Secretary - General,
dealing in detail with the 18 to Holland-Reuter.
Lord Ismay--Reuter. inclden's which, the prosecution allege, prove that tha nocused
were connected, with the Mau Mau.
six
At the close of his argument, Mr Pritt spoke of each of the accused in turn to how the caso against each of them is not good mough."
In his submission, there was no evidence at all that any of the focused were concerned Kvith the management of the Mau Mnu.
TERBIBLY THIN Mr
Prit
typed produced chart on which he said ho had been prepared to list the in- cidenta which the prosecution alleged against the nocused.
Mi Pritt enlculated Thero were two incidento against
POP
-
countries."-United Prest.
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