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Mau Mau Ringleaders In London To See Eden Coal Strike

Problem Rounded Up

THAT a state of emergency

rea

ing been declared and reinforcements of British Iroops despatched to the underscores the seriousness of the situation hus developed in which Kenya in consequence of the increasingly bold activities of the sepret and officially banned Mau Mau Society. That in due course Jaw and order in the Eust African colony will ba restored can be anticipated

but with confidence,

it cannot be denied that the

LEGISLATIVE

COUNCIL LEADER

MISSING

Nairobi, Oct. 21.

All the ringleaders of Kenya's wave of ter- rorists were believed to be among the 98 people arrested today as troops and police staged the second mass roundup in 24 hours..

Most of the arrests were made in day and con-night swoops on the Kikuyu tribal reserve.

Administration is passing through a period of excep- tional stran und is fronted with a situation demanding exceptional mes-

surca,

The growth of the

Mau Mau Society has been slow but alarmingly effee- five. It is an organisation

primarily concerned with

A Government spokesman said Jomo Kenyata, the leader of the Kenya African Union, arrested last night, was regarded hy members of the anti- white Mau. Mau secret society as "one of their leading lights."

The leader of the African members of the Kenya

Salvage Work

On Floating

Talks

Dock Started On Sudan

Singapore, Oct. 28.

British Admiralty experts hayo starlet sålvage work on the floating dock in the Singapore naval base, said to be the largest in the world, which was sunk by American bombers durtos the War",

The 10,000-ton Japanese cruiser Shiratoko, whitch

was in the dock during the raid and was also sunk by American bombers, WAS raised in 1940. The cruiser beached on the north shores of the Straits of Johore.

MOTE ST

Bro

Admiralty experis trying to salvage Dock No. 3, which, if floated. will be towed to England for scrap-United Press.

Surgeon

political subversiveness, but Legislative Council, Eliud Mathu, was reported missing Slashes His

to

it has also attracted purely criminal elements whose operations are made easier by the Society's oath of secrecy which affords these and vagabonds thieves

from additional security

The principal lelection. African political organisa- tion in East Africa is the Kenya African Unión, pledged

achieve nationalistic objectives through constitutional methods. Society is also politically nationalistic, but seeks to realise its nima through and of terrorism intimidation. And while at is unlikely that the lenders of the Kenya African Unloir are active members of the Mau Mau, the knowledge that both organisations are _drawn from the Kikuyu tribe-one of the largest in Kenya-provides some foundation for suspicion | that the two groups are not wholly divorced.

nets

today. He failed to appear at this morning's session of the Council.

lead.

The

Arteries

DEATH RECALLS

SCANDAL

A Government spokēsman ́said the authorities, had no idea of his whereabouts.

With the arrest of 30 many made a show of force in the other leaders, Africans had been city's African and Asian quar-| looking forward to Mathu for a ters.

arrests and military Police carried Sten guns and operations were carried out in rides in the raids, during which comparative order. The

unly

Salisbury, Oct. 21. more troop reinforcements were death

occurred in

Thomsons

Mr Arnold Burt-White, a flown into the elty aboard large Falls. the district where the brilliant British surgeon, transport planes,

shot dead a

who was once struck off the tribesman' who clubbed a policeman when he attempted medical register, was found.

The cruiser Kenya, speeding from Trincomalee, Ceylon, is also landing force of troops.

Arteries in his legs and wrists had been cut.

Begin

Naguib Acting As Mediator

:

Cairo, Oct. 21. The Egyptian Premier, General Naguib, started talks on the disputed Sudan today with El Sayed Abdel Rahman el Mahdi, Sudanese political, and re- ligious leader.

The discussions are expected to last ten days,

General Naguib is trying to reconcile the viewpoints of the Sudan's two major political fronts, the Ashigga Union, with

faction, Egypt

and the Mahdi's

Umme

Independence στουν. within the framework of Egypt's policy for "integrity

дп

of the Nile Valley."

It is the Brat contact that General

In Nag

mother,

himself born

of a Sudanese has had with the Mahdi, who leads the inde pendence

group.

The leaders of both Sudanese groups now in Chiro met separately this morning to study and report un a memorandum submitted to them by Premier Naguib.

They opc were asked to give their

opy

1. Amendments to the draft Sudan Constitution.

2. Evacuation of Brush

3. The best method of holding

They are

also

studying a British suggestion. mado to Egypt for the creation of a "body to supervise Sudanese elections"

of consisting Briton, one Egyption and four Sudanese, including

political

The Mau Mau said to have aboard a “sizable" to question hân. Near Nairobi the by his wife bleeding to death troops from the Sudan. All roads in Masal Province,olice found the body of a victim in his home during the elections in the Sudan.

Another victim of the Mau Mau covering most of the area south was missing for three weeks, night. and southwest of Nairobi 10 It was that of a municipal head- Tails, were closet during man tied up in a sack and toss

a "precautionary ed into the Athi river. the night as

His receptionist. said: The Mau Mau Secret Society In the hinterlands the prin- Burt-white was very ill 18 has been in existence for

objectives were at cipal police

months ago. He said he had least four years; it was reported Kikuyu tribesmen, hard core picked up a very rare germ and

was the of the Mau Mau.

All road

it was not known exactly what

measure."

here today. Its aim

expulsion of whites from Kenya, exits from the Kikuyu

by

letting

husky

places.

ment's

forest

and has an English wife, who DIES FROM WOUNDS

not heard from

married woman.

Its

STRUCK OFF

"MY

for Ave

ha

have been on

one

and religious groupings, and one observer from a neutral country to be agreed upon by the in-

terested parties, Reuter.

own

Sayed Sir Abdel Rahman El-Mahdi arrives at the Foreign Office, London, to see Mr Eden as one of the. representatives of the Sudanese Umma (Independence Party). He was in London to put his party's views on the future of the Sudan before the British Government. Seven representatives of the National Struggle Front were also in London claiming that they represent London Express. majority opinion in the Sudan,

Paris Express Runs Off Rails: 1 Killed

Paris, Oct. 21.

The Basle-Paris express ran off the rails to- night at Nogent le Perreux, near Paris, causing the death of one person and injuries to seven others. The casualties were all state railway employees. Some of them were aboard as passengers. Few people were aboard at the time.

The express hurtled off the rails and slithered to a 30 yards beyond-Nogent: Le Perreux station.

was a

Reacts On Railway Workers

Pittsburgh, Oct, 21. America's "unofficial" coal strike spread unemployment among railway workers tow day as, over 322,000. minera carried their protest work stoppage into its second day,

The Baltimore and Ohlo Rail- ¿way, an important coal corrier, Inid off 1,200 workers, and the Norfolk and Western Railway, ,told another 300 men that there fwould be no pay for them until

the ininers roturned.

Thousands of Pennsylvania Railway employees faced reduced hours if the walkout lasts more than a few days.

Coni miners refuse to work because the Federal Ways Stabilization Board reduced their recently negotiated $100 a day pay increase to $1.50, - maiting their new baste daily minimum wage $17.85,

About 85 per cent of the 375,000 members of the United Mirioworkers aro' idle.

SHOW DISAPPROVAL - Mr John L. Lewis, the unton chief, la reported to have called the union's 200-man policy committed to Washington for a meeting tomorrow. But t office would neither confirm nor deny this.

So far Lewis has not ordistea a strike, From all outward appearance the miners simply are staying away from work to show their disapproval of the board's action.

Mr John Lawls said later to- day that the soft coal miners would return

when to work, they received the full $1:00 a day riso agreed to by the pit operatora.

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In a letter to` President of the Bituminous (of Coal Operators Association, Mr Harry Mr Lewis- cald the Мовся, miners insisted on the full, rise. In a letter to Mr Lewis yes terday, Mr Moses urged the miners to end their walkout and accept the officially op proved Increase-Router.

Karens Attack Communists

Rangoon, Oct 21. Reports recolved here today said 400 - Karen- Insurgento... had. attacked and captured a Com- munist district headquarters 25 miles southwest. of Rangoon on the Irrawaddy Delta.

as it believes that all land in reserve were closed as police It was," Kenya belongs to Africans, who with dogs tanned out through Mr Burt-White's death made should spurn Western ways and native villages into forests in headlines here today almost as

SELF-GOVT HOPE return to their old customs. search of the ringleaders' hiding big 03 the Scandal which

Lontion, Oct. 21. career 'GET TOUGII DRIVE

blighted his

The Foreign Office said on IN EARNEST The arrests today were made

years.

Tuesday that Britain still hoped The authorities considered it by uniformed police

would have self- as the

unlikely that marines

In 1932, at the top of his fame the Sudan ONE of the most menacing

authorities launched a "get features of the Mau Mau tough" drive against the

sallors would be landed from as a gynaecologist, he was sum-government by the end of this Mau the cruiser Kenya at Mombasa moned before the General year. The spokesman was com- is that the society is able to Mou. Castilanet wide. The Backed

unless the situation deteriorated. Medical Council, the profession's menting on reports that Britain armed They hoped the presence of the ruling body, to answer charges had agreed to a 20-year trans--halt Kikuyu tribe has spread aquads with fixed bayonets, cruiser and troops show of "secret and improper" asso- tional" period for attainment of

intlependence for Sudan.

A train from Melbouse follow that the express was switched to from the coast of Kenya to police rounded up natives of strength would- have ciations with one of his patients,

The spokesman said: "We

ing the express was halted and a line on which the maximum Lake Victoria, to Uganda | lounging on street corners or steadying effect on the African

have reiterated and made it

passengers sent on to Paria by spend was 50 kilometres (30 and parts of Tanganyika.. dozing in the noon day sun. population, and would show

perfectly clear to all Sudaness coach, as, the express esvered miles) per hour instead of its -The Karena were said to have Furthermore, the tribe Few Africans resisted today's that the Colonial government

delegations which came to Lon-

the adjacent tracks,"

local line.

killed a Communist commander themselves be was in earnest about the emer- provides

domestic bundled into many

It was alleged that Mr Burt- don for consultation, that Bel-

The train a special new The driver waiting

of the express, and his lieutenant and seized trucks

woman gency mensures taken to stamp White and the for Europeans,

later tain still hopes the Sudan will electric "crash-proof" servanta

express Michel Huber, who was the only 100,000 dollars in US money as with a furtive grin.

the Mau Mau. while there are Kikuya

shared a room in a bungalow. have self-goverrunent by the with

the accident, well as anns, and ammunition. wheels, rubber

which person killed in The trucks, piled high with

Mr During the day the Govern

Burt-White heatedly end of this year. Britain has hurtled off the rails.on clerks in every Government natives. bicycles and

viaduct was unaware of the speed differ Other reports told of clashas stools,

that the Chief Secretary,

her pledgo Mr denied the allegations but the given

high above the Marne river. ence between the branch line between Karen tribesmen and department. In this manner

drove off through dusty streets

Henry S. Potter, told the Medical Council found him Sudanese should be allowed to

All the victims were in the and the usual line, and he Communists 100 miles North of the Mau Mau movement has

the determine freely their Colonial to a screening post outside the

crossed the points at 120 kilo-Rangoon. The Reds were sold to Legislative Council guilty and struck him off spread to all areas where city.

situation was under rogister.

future status," that the

He said there moter wagen.

have retreated to the Pegu foot- there are Kikuyu in

A police official sald most of control. He said the arrested any

With ordinary rolling stock, metres (about 80 miles). gynaecological re also was no truth in the reports

It is expected the line will be hills, leaving behind its dead be the arrested would be released Africans were believed

reported that Britain has suggested or the rallway authorities stated, cleared within 24 hours-Reuter, and wounded. Associated Press, numbers, and it may

to have searches be was

of kinetic force would have swept to postponement the agreed been mainly responsible for the to taken for granted that in after questioning.

Jomo Kenyatā, one of the Mau Mau wave of most places the Mau Mau

terror. verge of solving problems which general elections in the Sudan the whole train over the parapet a parila- and into the river. Instead, only had baffled specialists for years.next month to form has created "cells" for the loading figures rounded up, has United Press.

spent many years in England

Women, whose lives he had ment as a further step to self- the motor wagon crashed slither- purpose of actively pro

ing across the adjoining tracks on rein government. Mombasa, Oct. 21.

appealed for his saved. pagating its ideas. The aims

its side and lodging against the He said "if pll parties' con- statement. of the Mau Mau are clear

Police Inspector Douglas Cop-

a postponement parapet. land, 20, died in hospital bere Year after year the General cerned wanted

TRAIN SWITCHED enough,'' as one London

Britain Kenyala

turned down Britain could not, and would not correspondent has pointed

The accident enabled the Paris today of stab wounds inflicted by Medical Council about an African he had tried to arrest appeals, until in 1937 they an- object and would not argue

carry out. While the Kenya Africans In Kenya but did not

Me Burt-White's about it. But there has been no region fire authorities to on Saturday,

out on African Union conducts a make

"emergency operation' Copland, a Scot, was knifed name had been restored to the suggestion or agreement made

conceived to tackle rail crashes. campaign above ground for with revolutionary bodies,

four times while trying to detain modical register, and he was with anybody in this

Within A few minutes of the 'political

BEDSIDE ARREST and power

an African for attempted store free to practise again. Beu- tion."-United Press,

accident, fire engines from all He was taken without resis-breaking-Reuter authority, the purpose of

over the city were streaming out tanca from his bed at Ichawer, the Mau Mau is to step up

of the southem gates of the city toward Nogent the pace of political change removed to north frontier by challenging. and prison. A Government spokes- menacing the authority of man would not say whether the Government, and Kenyata's union, and the Mau

Mau were connected. fostering trouble At all

But he said. Inferences could levels and by all means. But while cradication of the drawn from Governor

London, Oct. 21. Evelyn Baring's hiaming of the

Tho Parliamentary

Labour Mau Mau Society is essen-Mau Mau for violence and his

today boycotted left. tial for the restoration of statement that the arrested men

wing leader Beyan's first "open" law and, order in East were believed responsible for

meeting of his rebel group.; Africa, other measures are lawlessness,

Other futuro required for the

important Africans

The Prime Minister was then Mr Churchill was answering į

The Bevailles; who on Thurs a question put by a Labour heard to my: "I have no inten, day will receive an ultimatum fuller study of social probe the treasurer of the Kenya member, Mr Arthur Lewis, who tors of doing so. I think that, from the Labour leadership de stabilisation of Kenya.. A detained were the secretary and

African Union. lems and needa is suggested,

There was. Utilo trouble dun- asked him to givo particulars the meshent may have been manding that they disband their of dates on which he had made lost when such approaches group, cought to demonstrate together with more detering the roundup. A native approaches to the American and could have been made-Reu- that their meetings were quite mined afforts to strengthen police shot one suspect dend Russian leaders for talles ontor. the best elements in the when an African struck an international problems. African community. If, officer on the head with a club. In reply Mr Churchill said: vor, stability is to be main-violently to Ebjected "g regret that no occasion has declares a competent obser An ovensional.

says she hos him since 1940.

While In

published

artieles

speeches

or

associate

30 miles outside Nairobi, and

nounced that

ter.

connec-

THE LOST MOMENT Bevan Meeting

London, Oct. 21.

The British Prime Minister. Mr Winston Churchill, said in Parliament today that he thought the moment might have been lost when approaches could have been made to President Truman and Marshal Stalin for high- Party level talks.

Boycotted

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harmless by opening them to the whole of the 200-strong Parliamentary Party."

arrested but

yet presented itself for such Tramcar Driver

But when the meeting started was shoved roughly toward

approaches. I cannot feel that tained, there must be more walling trucks Router.

there were only about 30 people responsibility

Exonerated for this fails

present and all but four were attention to the development TROOPS ON patrol

either on Britain or the United

Identidable Bevanites.. Sydacy, Oct. 21.. United Press adds that Bri-States there.” of economic resources and:

with bayonets fixed

The driver of a runaway. Mr. Lewis declared that in

The the creation of a 'new, and sh troops

Bevanlies decided to general election the tramcar, which plunged down a continue with today's new type Improved social order. This and in full battle kit, and sup the last

had promised steep hill into Sydney Harbour of "open meeting and arranged may savour of the counsel ported by armoured cars patrol Prime Minister

approaches and at 60 miles per hour was cx- another for next week. capital during police to make such Jed the of perfection, but it I raids Units of the Lancashire suggested that tale was an onerated by an investigation basically the only per Fusillers, part of whom were other broken promise.

committee.

The Bavarites are expected to manent answer to the airlifted from the Suez Canal

There was some. interruption They found he had had threo decide how to meet the lender

Mr Churchill rotorted; minutes Insidious fafluence of secret zone, 3,500 miles away during when

instruction in the ship challenge in the next 24 societies such as the Man the night, the King's African We really do not want to fight operation of the tramcar en that hours, but probably in private..

route-United Fresa, Mail

Hiles and the Kenya Regiment these elections over again"

---Neuten,

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The French stato rallways said. the cause of the accident Was

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Scarborough, Oct. 21. Three women' died" in 'a' fire at a house In Lower Hope Street, Scarborough today.

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