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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1955.
TRACKING MAU MAU
MAU THROUGH US Confident Japs
THE KENYA SCRUB
By Henderson Gall
Nyeri, Central Kenya, Dec. 7.
A full moon rode coldly above Police Tracker Team No. 1′ as they swished through long, wet grass and pushed into dense, crackling scrub after a Mau Mau gang.
It was about 4 a.m. and chilly, over 8,000 feet up in the White-settled Kenya Highlands, although
Equator.
for
1
will stoy on tracks was with this tracker team, | they
on end, sleeping on the the first to be raised two years days. ago in Konya to combat Mauground, until they catch the Mau. Leading it was Inspector gang or lose the tracks. Harry
D. Rudford, of Glou It is not often that these men View Road. Hammerfeld, lose the trail. Thoy track.or naturally as you or 1 read the
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shire.
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With him. le, wont aix Afriene trackers dressed in slouch hats, jungle green and jungle boots, carry ing Putchetla and riften,
man carried a ESOFTIÐUR zun Da if 10 were
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Radford, aged 29, brown single
burly, is hardly a typical police- man. He is a Contract Inspector, which means that he has signed an agreement to serve in Kenya for two years, with the
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nearly on the
tribe responsible for Mau Mau.
urc Others
"Joyal" Kikuyu Samburu and Turkana, from the northern plaints and men from
forest tribes such д the Wanderobo. Their mixed nature seems to improve rather than Impair efficiency. Strangely, the | Mūsai, traditional enemies
of
the Kikuya, and plainsmen, are not successful in trucker teams
The trackers, all run linder possi-police authority, carry out two
Krussbilty of being required for ແຕ
extra six months.
main functions:
1. When a theft of livestock Some lime ago. ho Was is reported, trackers pick up the assigned to be second in con- troll and follow it hard, often inand of a tracker teom—a con-
not easy as the Mau Mau ore sitierale achievement, for all but depl confusing their tracka. one of the other Europeans with 2. Acting on special informa- fracker teams are Kenys-dom | tion about terrorist movements, or have long lived here.
the teams go out as a striking force, as in the caso of the patrol I joined.
Ability To Cope
stalk.
Suddenly some buffalo wheel-
way through the buth. Bringing up the rear was an African girl, a "blur". nged about 17, whe had been cap- tured with gang some days admitted She had questioning that she had ive been to the gang hide- oul, near
European farm, of
It is 44 Tribute to his fluent self-styled "General" Chun.Swahit his ability to cope who led about 20 terrorists. with a tricky job-for the Mau
She
and described is post- Mou terrorist may be only half tion, and this information had
the meance he was two years matched
with
ago, but he is still an ugly ical knowledge of one of customer and an expert in forest tracker
aight-coloured warfare. tenn Kikuyu, known reclinically Radford may not be a typical R **tionie Mick" that IN.
* | policeman but the responsi- former terrorist who had bilities he hus out here are by
hand with the frown in his Security Forces.
been
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AH we pushed through En Boisbon Lai, populMI,
sweet smelling undergrowth, прец
spoked Radford stopped and said: "Wo Our with. pray all Alexszkizu živno
are making too much noise" D. cati
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Nowadays, with terrorists becoming daily fewer, and per- haps craftier, many a patrol may draw a blank. But usually some knowledge is gained which may lead in time to successes. The teams know the maze of scrub- covered country inside out.
Silence Essential
Sometimes trackera call in police dogs but these are apt to make a noise when silence is essential--and are also nervous
The Danish capital won't be caught napping when Salmi Nicholas makes his annual visit on December 25. The streetN are decorated for Christmas, festooned with myriads of coloured lights. Typical is the main shopping centre, "Stroegot”, plo- sured here, where illuminated dooorations can be men stretched across the roadway—Express Photo.
the secrecy that farmer, were mistakenly shot as
Will Have Trade Barriers Lowered
Washington, Dec. 7. American officials today expressed confidence that Japan within a year would persuade reluctant members of the General Agreement on Tariffa and Trade (GATT) to lower their tariff barriers | against Japancse exports.
The officials gave this optimistic prediction at a background briefing reviewing the 35-nation GATT talka which ended in Geneva last Saturday. One of the chief goals of the The officials said that the fear United States at these talks hrs, of dumping by Japan was not to expand Japan's international the only reason for the refusal trade by encouraging Australia, of GATT members to Brezil. Cuba, France, Haiti, New proferential treatment. Zoaland, the Rhodeslan Nyasa- land Tedoration and South Afrien
to
give "most favoured nation' treatment to Japan, which was admitted to the trade and thrift organisation In September.
Frankly Stated
extent
They listed two other reasdns: 1. Fear that Japan could win in genuine and fair trade com petition.
2. The "hangover" of antipathy towards Japan as result of the last war and events before the outbreak of tho
The United States also want-Pacifle hostilities.
Austria, ed Britain,
"But we
hopeful are very Belgium, Luxembourg, Hollend and India, that progress will be made to- who grant Japan preferential wards overcoming these fears,"
one official said. treatment through separate ng-
Japan is now exported to the to act withirs rangements,
toke the lead in working for a rolaxation of trade barriers through direct
talks with the GATT partnera.
framework of GATT.
officials
were dis- failure to
Although American frankly stated they appointed at their secure theso objectives during the recent talks, they
wold they expected Important and substantial progress to be made by the time the OATT nations met again in Geneva next October.
Britain Too
of
"The
standing committee GATT will steer the problem in the light of the progress which Japan makes in these talks,
P
They said Britain
Was con-
wis
of comme to sign a treaty
Offcials expressed qualified They pointed to the fact satisfaction with Britain's Brazil Was negotiating with proach to Japan, Japan and was expected to ex- Britain is one of the nations thest turning his hand to some
tend full
"most GATT privileges to refusing
forrnal a thing nuw He was fiber in of the forest animals, parti-
Japan in the near future.
favoured" commitment within the Royal Air Force as a Nation-
of leopard In addition, Because of
Several of the other reluctant GATT but in fact granting these ad Serviceman,
and served in
in trackers
may
come across surrounds them, le сал be terrorists by farm guards. nations were said to be retaining concessions
through separate the Middle East. Later, he rhinoceros, elephant, reckoned said of these forces. They are] Several of the African mem- deep-rooted objections to follow- arrangements. worked for number of aircraft the most dangerous of all
shot by Mau ing suit, but officials expocted a tsy mainly loyal Kikuyu and former bers have been Arms in Great Britain and then some men, buffalo, which are terrorists led by Kenya-born Mau who saw through their dis- Japanese "break-through" with cerned about the problem and
ded to have a look at Africa, Inquisitive. "ko cattle in European who speaks Kikuyu quise, and certainly
the forest Beld at home," said Radford, and who is disguised like
extremely the gangs have become joining the police.
with Japan. and snakes
ter-suspicious,
Fear Of Dumping even of genuine
But they added that "These tracker Learna bow the rorist,
with blackmod
face. gangsters who may have moved
it was knee as specialista only to one Their task is to make contact into new territory.
They said
becoming was no prospect that the British eloan to the "holdout" nations would agree to a formal GATT force in the Kenya polim, the with real terrorists, lull their
the whole When
story of
Мац would commitment, China are made up of Africans from a
He told me that tracker teams "black-face boygh or pseudo suspicions, become accepted as these men
can be told it will that trade with Japan gangs When the pairot 1 join. fellow gungsters, and then at undoubtedly bo one of the affect their markets to a limited Special, number of tribes. Some areed was operating, a neighbour the best opportunity, "fame Micks" with an intimate Ing section of forest was "closed" capture.
kill or strangest and most heroic of all extent only. To this the officials hair-raising tales of the added that this small margin was the knowledge of terrorist mentality because a pseudo gang was
concern to the wei- Recently several of these men, Kenya Emergency China Mall of vital and are mostly Kikuyu, the there.
led by a 19-year-old Kenya Special.
the
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Ho hopes to be able to see something of the rest of Atrics, and has ideas about becoming a
warden. game
Then, in Swahili, the ungua franca of East Africs, he told atine-featured Tho Sergeant, You can enjoy mod will
warrior from Broakfast | Samburu enjoy Hunting & Palmers
Aam DESAALLLINGzsiva 20 Northern
to Kenya deserts. 50) Avaliabit
!n'". while Radford,
the big and myself tracker. waited above a bushy gorge.
shivering. walting We stood tur the sun to rise. Strange bird calls Bowled over HTA The kalky tracker sat bare-foot and un- concerned in the damp grass.
Yet, every sense was keyed
Once up h the half-light.
mistaking
small Jumpod. black bird for
terrorist' hend, and felt foolish. Radford and the tracker sald they smell Mau Mau hide sanoke from n
-the terrority ghi them early In the morning before leaving the hide for the day, to sleep each under a separate bush.
We waited for the crack of a
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clusive, but no signal of success came. A feeling of anti- hereby RiveDelimax set in and we left the That KING-HONG IOWE truckers to return after us to
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HAU of Derby Road, 1st floor, Kowloon, Hongkong, in
base.
They reported several hides, about 36 hours pre- viously. and the presence of
applying to the Governor for tracks which eventually petered out. Rudford sold that he was appointed, the chances of a
had seemed good.
naturalisation, and that any person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not be granted should sund written and signed statement of the facts to the Colonial Secretary, Colonial Secro- tariat, Hongkong.
The immineable night Agures hat! dwinkiest in the growƐUK light to become laughing young Africans and an
Englishman. Cheerful and careless
to
now.
Land
the team piled into rover to drive about ten miles the form run by Peter who started Becker, the man
and police
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES tracker teams
"TAWING“ Arrd, 3th December 1935
Damesed Cargo Ex this re
in Kenya
eventually convinced authorities that they ought to be put on an official footing.
Voluntary Work
will
be surveyed by Menors Goddard & Douglas Hong Kong di Kowloon Wharf at 10 .. or 'riday, 8th
Much
of his work has been mere
December and Saturday 10th Decem voluntary, he has kliled
bet 1955, and consignees represon- Mau Mau thon perhaps any tatives are requested to be prevent during survey.
Agenta
AUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
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other single person in Kenya, and he has the admiration of all the surrounding farmers. In fact, he has spent so much time ghasing Mau Mau that he has had to neglect his own farm.
Now there
tracker teams, one of the spearheads of In the anti-terrorist campaigns. Becker's absence, Radford was SUNDAY POST-HERALD running Tracker Teams 1 and 2. Првов
He had bech out commercial
prc. advertising should bvious day and would probably be out the following one, posel- bly all night as well, for when- ever the call goes out from a been farm has farmer whose
for
booked not later than noon on Wednesdays.
the
For the SOUTH CHINA raided and stock stolen, the MORNING POST and the trackers are ready,
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