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"RELIEVING WORLD TENSION “
"GENERAL
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CHINA
(the Mau Mau thug who is to die)
SHOWS A WAY
USTICE has caught
up with Mau Mau's "General
China"
and only a fortalght after he came out, wound- ed, from the bush in Kenya.
"China," whose real name is Waruhlu Itote, has been sentenced to death.
Well, there goen the No. 2 man of the half-dozen field commanders of Mau
Mau. Above him
only Dedan Kimuthi, flamboyant publicity seeker.
was
Below "China" was "Maten- jago" "the hairy one"who killed only a few weeks
was
nga.
For months Jes Kenya I heard of "General China," 32- year-old ex-corporal, holder of
Enjoy the dancing-
cool off with Coca-Cola
Dancing is wonderful fun but it does
make you warm. No matter! Pause and.
cool off with delicious Coca-Cola
It's the world's most famous
the
By John Redfern
who has just returned from Kenya
Burma Star. Informants, other side in the Muthira dis- prisoners, came across with bits trie, which was "China's" about him. They even brought home. over some well-worn pletures showing him posing with his "staff some of them wearing stolen medals in their forest hide-out.
At his tell he claimed to command 4,000 Mau Mau ter- rorists. But like all Mau Mau leaders, when caught he tried to put a good face on hir
activities.
That is why I do not attach much importance to what he said about his intention to surrender.
Encouraging
GENERAL George Erskine, the commander-in-chief, said six months ago that ПЕТ who voluntarily surrendered would not be charged if their crimes were only possession of fire- arms or consorting with gangs.
But the offer did NOT apply to Mau Mau who surrendered as the result of a battle.
And that is just what "China" did.
All this gives some encourage ment to those who want to see
end
to the Mau Mau
Lew months
an
business,
A
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
AM able to reveal the can litt 100 tons with your little Identity of the ape
like woman who, with two ape-like men, has been frightening workers on rubber estates in Perak.
she doesn't weigh 100 tons, finger."
old"
·MAS."
"I never said she did, old man. It's just question of doing things the right way, An- other cup of coffee, old man?" From the description "No thanks, old
man.
given by the Chinese girl have to go to the chemist to Wong Yee Moi, who said the pet her new prescription made woman had a fair skin, when she had, her last dose of up. Then I have to remember long protruding teeth, and medicine. Then I
have to start spoke a funny language like cooking her lunch, and I emp- a bird croaking," it seems pose the doctor will come when clear that she is descended I'm in the middle of t
"Doctors always come when from the English aristocracy and still retains the accent are you feeding her on, old you're cooking the lunch. What
which, to the uninitiated, man?" sounds like a croak or a "On Wednesday she had a
bit sharp bark.
of steamed fish and baked beans. On Thursday another
According to other reports bit of steamed fish and tinned the woman, Elko the two pear. On Friday, as she was men, wore a long moustache feeling better, a cutlet and reaching to her knees, This baked beans and tinned peas." leaver little doubt that sho is the daughter, or grand- daughter, of Agaths Stench- waters, the hideous and raiber hirsute wife of the Ear! or of Gravy, who ran away with a rubber planter in 1899 And went native after an emotion-
"What have you got in your shopping bag for her today, ald man?"
al disturbance,
The following flash back tells what happened to Agatha in the Somerset Maugham country.
The scene is the living room of a bungalow on a rubber estate in 1899, It is midnight. chatter Two Chinese servants
in a corner, Agatha is lying on a settee reading an old maga- zine and cursing the mosquitoes.
1st Servant: Pyong ting tong pong ping,
2nd Servant; Yang tong ting ping pong,
(Captain Stenchwaters
"A fillet steak, baked beans | and tinned peas."
"Aren't you rather overdo
ing the beans and peas, ald
man?"
"I haven't the time to pre-
pare and cook fresh vegetables, old man."
"Of course not, old man. But you might ring die changes with a tin of carrots or spinach.”
"She doesn't happen to like carrots or spinach, old man."
"Well that's a pity; old man." "Yes, old man.
As a special treat today I'm starting her off with a tin of pea soup,”
"Good heavens, old man." "Why good heavens," old man?"
yang
"Oh just 'good heavens,' old yong man. Well I hope everything
will be all right." Teels
"I hope so. So long, ald.
million Kikuyu who have taken in and yells to the servants for man."
the Mau Mau oaths,
It matters not that many in the tank have done that un- willingly. To most Kikuyu an oath is an oath, whatever the consequences. And
a whiskey and soda.)
Agatha Drinkin agen? Stenchwaters, looking at her
"So long, old man."
with distaste: Anyone would Diary Of A Worm
drink if he were married to a woman who looks like a colonel death by In a cavalry regiment. ranga pitilessly provided for Agatha: You didn't hev To the wobblers-k!]is what little i merry me. scepticism there is over oath- taking.
And don't think that Mou
I
Stenchwaters: How else could get the money to pay off the mortgage on the estater
Agatha: Eye Am makin Today in an area of roughly Mau is short of cash. The spivs another will tomorrow, ectunt- 1,000 square miles of reserve and racketeers who run the ly land are about 1,000 hard-core pange business are experts in Stenchwaters; Like hell you Mau Mau.
extortion: 15s. from every will- ing oath-swearer; 60s, and more (He draws his revolver and in for the unwilling. When funde takes
a pot shot at Agatha, run down, a blanket order goes missing her by inches.) out for "renewal oaths." Money
Agatha, without Alinching. on the nail.
Dem bed shot.
Tho Kikuyu buts Ho along a huddles
series of ridges. From the air the ridges look lonely. It la "Boys' Own Paper" Africa. But the popula- tion is dense.
Oh, yes, anyone who thinks of Mau Mau as a kind of libera- The encouraging thing is that ion movement, misguided but General Erskine would rather sincere, is quite ignorant or do battle in the reserve than up quite crazy. Thugs at the top. amid
the close-packed forests dupes at the bottom. That's where visibility is about 70 your Mau Mau. yards at high noon
Although their total of Operating Independently of efficient automatic
weapons, the 1,000 killers on the ridges rides, and shotguns is probably are approximately another 1,000 not more than 800, there is a spilt into gangs near Timau, pool and weapons are drawn as Fort Hall, Thika, Nairobi, and a required. few other towns.
Then, each gang has a num- Inevitably, the present move- ber of home-made ahotguns, the Birmingham- ment of the gangs is leading to and pangas,
a crowding up of bad types made farm knives so deadly in
the ́gainst
towns.
Menace the wrong hands, moves nearer to the trim homes
of the Europeans, the small, Fanaticism
plain houses of the Africans.
That is the risk. Taking it,
total force of at
are.
(Cynthia, low-cut EUET- ing dress, enters and runs into the arms of Stenchwaters.)
Cynthia Darling. (Seeing Agatha) Oh!
Volver
on a side table;
ALUSHED worm arrives home,
late and says he has been to meeting at 'local hotel to ar- range details of Rotarian din- ner. When wife asks if women are
invited worm says only female Rotarians or Ladies of the Inner Wheel.
latest Oh, so this is worm's move to leave' wife at home on winter evenings, is it? Al-
wife has though
to become hardened to regimental reunion
ders Home Guard reunion
Minewatching Logothers, Bowls Club dinners, and office stag suppers the didn't think she would have to endure sex-mad worm's - orgies with Ladies of the Inner Wheel
re- putting
If Rotarian slogan is "Ser- Don't vice Before Self" wife, of ali shot people, should qualify for In- ber Wheel as she has put ser- vice to ungrateful' worn before self all the best years of her life,
Stenchwaters,
worry, darling. I nearly her just now.
Cynthia: And you missed? Oh, you ailly, silly boy.
Stenchwaters, mumbling
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he kisses her neck; Oh you wonderful yum yum gorgeous,
ah you lovely
yum yum.
picks
the
How else could wife, have yum converted plg's sty·into comfort- yum able home on miserable house
keeping allowance which ford- ly worm gives her after Binging away most of paltry pittance on witty worm friends at dinner and eadging ladies of Inner wheel who no doubt make eyes et worm at cocktail timo?
Cynthia; Darling. (While they are in a clinch Agatha rises from the settee, revolver and up shoot, them both dead. ). Agatha: Dem good shots, 1st Servant: ting tong pong pingyang yong Trang yang
2nd Servant:
tong ting ping pong.
ACTORS
we may hope for a succession TINALLY, every gang has on- of ganga destroyed, and perhaps
(Agatha walks through the other weapon a murder french windows into the moon move quicker to the finish. Gus fanaticism untrammelled lit garden,
the paddy After all, on our side is a by any reasoned-out programme fields beyond, past
the tall. least 30,000 or objectives. Kil the Euro- canes of macaroni, waving in BZO there, whites and blacks operating pean! Kill the African who the gentle breeze, and through were between 2,500 and 3,000 with the Army, the pollee, and has not sworn with ust Terribly the semolina killers in the 3,000 square miles the Kikuyu loyalist guard.
simple.
This fanaticism plus the power of the oaths means that Mau Mau could go on for a long, long time.
of bamboo and cedar forest. Today there are not more than
500; they are tucked down in the foothills of
the eastern
Aberdares.
From that high range
The tank
and TN the field we have ten men from Mount Kenya to the cast to their one.
Those few in Kenya who Alock! I am really know the Kikuyu say drained off into the land The active killers are the lap dramatic reserved for Africans.
changes. They
bo. spurting terror somewhere lleve that one. Ane day the These reserves are loosely every day. But look at the cowod oath-dupes of Mau Mau spread below, the Aberdares tank behind the tap! In it are will pack it all up. How much but fairly concentrated on the perhaps threequarters of 裁 I hope they are rightl
the men from the forests have not persuaded by the arithmetic. that they are capable of sudden
IS AN AIR HOSTESS
DO
TOO
OLD
AT
32?
(By JAMES WYNTER)
wamp util atte comes to the lair of The who Jungle Man
waiting for her with open arms.)
Jungle Man: Oo ahh yah yum yum yum ́ath gray lovely oo ahh yum yum yun.
Agutha: Darling.
Gentlemen In Retirement
❝TOW'S the wife, old man?","
Except for service before self how could
my Lord Worm come home to shot dinner an occasions when 'my
Lord Worm is not dining out at clubs or buylor champagne fer sirens
of Inner wheelr But for service before self my lord would go to dinner like tramp and would look a nice fool changing £5 note with holes in his rocks.
As it is service before self wife will have to darn moth holes in Lord Worm's dinner Jacket which is, so old that it doesn't meet roundi Lord Worm's overfed, aging stomach, and is so shiny that no doubt inner wheel sirens will be able to, powder noses
Ars front lapels Instead, of using hand mirrors.
Di
Service before self wito "Well, her temperature's gone dining out every night of the wouldn't mind gay Lord Worm down, old man, and she's feel week if he could afford it, or if
d" bit peckish," j They always do after about of industry like
ho were invited out by captains
Manager
gra but
And
Clap a work, The
They heeda lot of who not only manages nourishment when they're get in able to Invert Laying
make money on them because he knows all tip tops on Stock Exchange
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ts to
ting over flu." "Of course man. But the dificulty do all!! the housework, shopping and cooking, make her bed, You would never ́ ́ find
GAB keep her bedroom fire Going Manager, whole; fine com and fill her hot water bottles, maiding figure in properly out
"Bottles, old ma
dinner jacket
and takes hire "When she's lit she always
Gis Manerer in now... evening') has two battles. One at her dress to all dinners, wäeling hie feat and one at her backer Then time on common bowia, slab all the bedclothes on the floor spending that pound note, on- she toassa and turns and thrown worms, or good for nothing Motion worms or showing off "They're easily picked up. Inner wheel trollope, »
man."
OES an air hostess lose between the airline concerned An official said: "We have her ability if she loses and the Air Line Stewards and several stewardesses in their her sex appeal? That is
Stewardess Association.
thirties. There is an upper age one of the big questions The airilne mys the establish- question of asking any girl to limit of 27 on joining, but the now being debated. In the ed qualifications of a Stewardess resign on account of age has not United States airlines buslaro: 1. Attractive appearance, arisen.
pleasant disposition, ever tem- periment," neaïness, tanmatried "We find they are more
But you can't always be status, and ability and desire to emelet when they are turned there to do it. Then the man A supplementary ques meet and serve tion that is being, asked is
MCA 20. By that time they have got |
lot of "Does a girl, lose both at ye Basics among these quali» (57)
fications le an attraetk
have an Ance!!
ness.
It all began recently, when sdd:"Buch one of the leading United States ortidarily infomatio lines told,
over degree in young
32 that
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old in course they are, old Gas Manager spends money
man
Fron honso,and, Mrs Gas Mazinger
of the job, ages to get the undersheet and and those who can help him in
MARGAirways (blankets, tied up, fit a kroz bike career; und while Gas Manager.
Uml of 28 "Well that's, qülte
will go from peak to park and ily, will retire, one day in comfort,
Long Worms like middle
but berak have no other progesting her out of bed you life) went poverty stricken
BOAC: have, about her under the waist with onmany wit nutter. From oner
Hand, and pull the bad