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THE GLOSTERS' COMMANDER SPEAKS OF LIFE AS A CAPTIVE OF THE REDS
I HAVE GAINED PRIDE AN ADDED IN BEING BRITISH
By LT.-COL. JAMES CARNE
C.O. of the 1st Battalion, Cloucestershire Regiment, who wrote this statement on his way home to England in the Empire Orwell.
affected very title by their captivity.
They are just the some good lot of fellows they have always been; and I am quite certain that their families will agree with me.
that there is nothing had very unpleasant, and strange about them
elther opinion of the outside world, the men
of The "enient sometimes terrible. enjoyment
experiences politically or otherwise. olley did not depend upon the which are unlikely to enter the acceptance of this argument, or syeton to any Briton.
The thought, oc fere, of such on the success of the education programune, otherwise mast of penthoor undoubtedly as would now be in a bad way. vided indirect pressure cy scime
benefits However, the
were prisoners, and this was uniques-
p:o-
A
Good For Us
THE COLONEL goes into HIDING BECAUSE A BOY HAS VISIONS
and out of Mau Mau land, a sinister threat
By Jack Ensoll
T people-an old
Nakuru, Kenya. so rapid as the mercurial HIS is the story of two rise of General China from man street corner to base head- and a boy. Both, in quarters. The general is their respective ways, have 28, the colonel is 71. notable achievements to
their credit. The old man In the panga-terrorised has been a great soldier. He high country of Kenya it la wears the ribbons of the the very old and the very suffer most. D.S.O., the O.B.E., and the young who M.C.
Witness six year old
Michael Ruck, hacked to Ile is one of the work's death in his nursery in B leading field naturalists, Kinangop farmhouse; 70- and you will find, at the year-old Mr James Mac- Natural History Museum, Dougall, crippltd with specimens that be has arthritis, killed by gang- collected from the Hima ters at Nyeri, not far from kome, layas, from Siam, and from Colonel Stockley's the burnt-slenna plains of last July. Africa. He has also col-
lected for many American Forest home
museums,
The boy's claim
to KENYA soon knew about celebrity is that he has the visions of the boy.
visions. He was born nine The gangs were out after
韻 pile of Colonel Stockley at the.
years ago
on
smoky skins in t round remote high place facing
hut on the fringe of
the Mount Kenya. Here he
forest on the lower slopes had built a house with a
of Mount Kenya,
his
beautiful garden in a forest clearing 16 years ngo,
be
Beenuse he has visions cause he thought to spend is assured the years remaining to him
in peace and solitude:
future among his people, for seeing visions is the summit of precocity among these dark sons of Mumbi, the mother 'of 'all Kikuyu,
Delinquency
THIS natural gift leads to
Intil his retirement from the Indian Army, in which he commanded the 3/14th Punjab Regiment, he had lived a life of wild adven- ture in various parts of the Empire.
the strangest and most
In his retirement he con- dangerous kind of juvenile tinued his naturalist's work delinquency. Compared with. in the wilderness of East the bulgy-eyed, pot-bellied Africa. And all his life he young Kikuyu, the cosh boy wrote books about the wild of the Western world is like places. the apples at the back of the the barrow pale, these books as.
i remember reading some of,
a boy,
Mic
N the early part of the war the enemy organisa- tion provided only the bare necessities of life for the prisoners, and this in- cluded food to which many found it difficult to accus
ports which have the im- tum themselves, and whleb. unduly who felt that he had a
約 retain life and Communiam or, less ambitiously, pression of indiscipline at porta in any case, lacked the right
health.. nourishment necessary to maintain complete health.
Soon after the Glosters group reached the prison camps in the extreme north
not such as to impress anyone tandbly part of the systematic THIS brings me to other re-small, and insignificant," dreaming then that one day I
Suffering
siterapi so obtain converts to
The boy who has visions should help to save the author
10 Sow to seeds of doubt, of call on the way home. I cau exhort the grown man from the vision of a nine-year-
vy,
SVEND
1
ת!
The pollee got to know that a large gang of Mau Mau were on
At disloyalty which will say nothing about these of his ridge or his clan or old Kikuyu. might later produce Rod flowers, reports except that I believe The bait that can be sad for them to be greatly exaggerated the Chinese is that most of us accounts of isolated incidents.
,velenso
very fair There is
a pleasanter side to health, but the experience the picture.
a. syrian
At Aden, all ex-prisoners of productee and Governed by politioni
passing through were not inhibited war com- and expeberay. De
entertained by the splendidly and by laws and ratulations civilians and R.A.F. The mem-
officers
FROM our first arrival in been separated: warrant officers pound:
in another; thus the know theen has loft enest of us sergeants or corporals
and privates were with 12e liking for our captors. deprived of the leadership and
in colour-sergeants:
of the country, conditions fixed camp the ranks had. Faving been under started to improve slowly but in the following months many of us showed the first signs of beri-beri, had other ailments due to vitamin deficiency.
Under
their views.
сау
our own mare
1-
باد
Unaffected
his tribe or, if he is with Mau Mau, the adult desperadoes of the gangs the move to carry out the kid- The old men listen to him, napping and subsequent killing and sometimes he
can of Colonel Stockley. Within 16 persuade people to murder. minutes a platoon of the King's
-African-Rifles arrived
ta
which
at-the the
..........
bers of the committee who The other day this boy isolated house organised this hospitality told had a vision that all would colonel had retired "to And me how much they had enjoyed be well again in Kikuyuland peace." seeing and entertaining the men. if a white man were cnp-
Simliarly...at the other ports
a
Frightened off
THE gung was frightened off
and
advice to which they were ne- they were not such conditions ustamed-but
without their own leadership.
of call on the way home, there tured and sacrificed on life and health are not
near the Mau Mau Many N.C.Os and men with wholly dependent, on
treat were always those who had hill food, strong characters came to the WHAT effect has this
headquarters in the forests leadership, V mint had on us? I know happy stories to tell.... shelter, and clothing; and fore and provided
Many of Lis would have above Nyeri.
return u speedier
pursued, and Colonel it is to their own resolution exposing the inaccuracies in the that, there have been some men
Communist propaganda, and converted to Communism. There preferred and optimism that some of presenting
After much talk in the Stockley was rushed out of the are also some who are far more home, but this short interval between release and home.
arca by a policeman of the the credit. must be given tonal' opinions. The majority anti-Communist than they were betwe
forest hide-outs, the local
Special Branch. - T19: for thus expressing before.
of coming has been good for for the fact that few Bri- suffered
The majority are, we are the better prepared to Mau Mau leader, ex-Nairobi course,
between We somewhere
With him went spiv,
his Kikuyu tish soldiers died in
take up the responsibilities, as
self styled now As with every other aspect of
these two categories,
General China,
described named gun-bearer Kabogo, tivity.
prison camp life, discipline was
It has been suggested that well as the joys, of home.
by his employer as one of the Already our captivity is losing Lieut.-Colonel Charles Hugh greatest, wild life collectors in By the following winter flucnred by polics. Any these meri are confused in their
O.B.E., Africa. its importance; it is fading Into
A few (1961-2) most were warm- prisoner who might be expected entiis shout polities.
to influcace his friends
Was impression is given that thereby the past; we look forward to a Stockley, D.S.O.,
M.C., of Nyeri, as the Kabogo netted in ly clad and the food hud
Tona lable to be consisted of some thyena la some way different brighter future.
River area a hitherto unknown improved, although it could effence, nad
viet.im. When all is said and done. his punishment from other cren,
specimen of butterfly. not be compared to a nor- successfully removed his re- Although I hove made no perhaps the majority of men
lengthy direct Schuiry netionary influence for
their will agree with my sumuning-up mal British diet.
political opinionis I thinic that of the results of the experience: Housing
crowded, eriol, WAS
I have gained an added pride Chinese mihords of Impression is incorrect: to my and, of course, comforts
often punishment were
priki- mind the vast majority of the in being British, and I have lost were generally non-existent. dive, and several officers and men appear to have been a little weight!
Conditions in the camps continued to improve slow-
ly and rather spasmodically Į
until we were released, and
by that time they could be considered reasonable.
Their Policy
be
The
90
to
art an
Nathaniel
HE news that there
is
མ
Won
has
years ago
the
Colonel Stockley
As soon as Mau Mau began, given a lifetime to the
had been even Kabogo, who service of his country, and with Stockley for 10 years, yet his promotion was not could not be entirely trusted. At the lownship of Nyeri Kabogo was taken to custody for questioning.
Gubbins
When I had influenza it would' greater compassion than
Meanwhile, in his battered safari lorry, driven by an enigmatic plain-elothes polico askuri, the old empire builder travelled to my house tet Nakuru, on the floor of the Ri
Valley. I shall never
be sitting on my bed, collag my. Captain with a cold, a Sergeant all the greater.
General now without
ham or bacon in
il
-
But à General with a cold is
171 single
3
Long safari
WHEN he arrived he had not
caten for 80 hours, and had had no sleep for four days. At my house he oto and slept, and I repaid the debt for the adven- fures he wrote for the book-
I shall never see a General shelves of my childhood. now without mentally stripping
# Therefore the shock to me is a decline in private pig
grapes at a gulp and drinking with a cold, or a Private with u occ keeping because there
my medicine.
cold.'
remembering that a little germ ONE is justifled in beileving
too small to be seen even by the that the effort made by the are adequate supplies of
Moreover I would make a Chinese to
Latest scientific instruments can Civilians with colds его по Improve the lot of pork and bacon reminds
complete fool of the pig and
dawn that splendid their prisoners-and there is no me that I once thought of myself too. I would never cat
common that they are accepted as strike doubt that they did irake such keeping a pig.
normal part of English life, gleaming gure its presence an effort--was not entirely for humanitarian reasons.
But when I made the suggest and would apologise to It for like women in funny hots, and night,
got no sympathy from anybody. It was in accordance
that I once eating pigno head. reminded with ion I their "enient polley." the policy would never kill the pig or have
It was suggested I would give governing the treatment of pri- it killed because I would grow it a bath once a week, powder a different matter. soners and this had a definite too fond of it. political motive.
As a matter of fact I think it like a baby and spray it with perfume to make is presence The technique appears to pigs are full of charm. on endeavour
I don't think they are parti- more bearabic, to Impress the
In fact (the family victim by the "leniency with cularly ugly, at least not after
sald) To one like myself who has which he is treated, in the hope studying photographs of smart instead of relieving the acute stood so often in rigid ranks that he will the more readily weddings.
I like their round,
on I shall forget adventuro at last food altuntion of the period the waiting for a General to inspect From now Amlabic absorb the teachings.
his colourful faces, and
often been plg would live for a long, long mo and make personal remarks him in The argument
supporting this enchanted by those quicic, half-me and be the only pig in the about my unsmart appearance, parade and think of him only as
And Kabogo, the Anest col- is that we (the prisoners),
Generals have always boen a crumpled, grey-haired, red- lector in Africa? Kabogo scaled awesome, godlike creatures eyed having taken part in what was roguish, half-crafty glances they world to die of old age.
thing muffling in an
fence the high, barbed-wire tormed
unjust war of
untidy bed full of hot Wero aggression,
thus
bottles, crumbs and lost hand-round the police compound at Nyeri und escaped--to what? criminals; but under tho "lenlent policy
To the wild country with which
inken
of the fact that we hat Deon deceived by our Capitnilet Government, that we were only tools of the "warmongers," and thus might be re-educated.
I was told It would soon be Fortunately, although perhaps clattering, after me wherever 1 sabroly owing to fear of the went,
En
account
have
give you during a short paupe
in their non-stop banquets,
I was told that before a week
was
was out a pig would be an THE General has a cold. house honoured guest in our
· A sentence in
him of his polished boots and Then he set all again on glittering gongs and dressing another long safari to a· secret him in a pair of warm flunnel destination. He was escorted pyjamas.
by a police officer - and I thought he looked tired, 02
above the comman mortals.
Bilments of
kerchiefs.
moment it has,
me that a
glory on
water
Up to this a news
If I had realised this in the he is so familiar, or to the Mau and b constant Areside com- item which branded itself on nover occurred to
my brain was: The General General could have a cold. Arat war to end, wars my juices Mau? panion.
I have often thought would not have was unable to attend owing to though
wobbled so that in a moment of extremno much at feverish cold,
the approach, of a rage at the sight of slovenly General.
they might havo
=={London Express" Kerolor)
For many redmous a General privates with a cold seems an object for apoplexy..
7
The boy with visions? I do not suppose that I shall Ever meet him. I would like to Just once,