They follow the Dug-out General
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1953.
The Man Who Leads The Mau Mau With A Sword
in
Nairobi.
EN feet underground Д 12ft. - square chamber dog out of red volcante earth Home- where in the Nyeri district sits Dedan Kimathf, com: mander in the field of the
Mau Mau army.
lie wears the captured uniform of an African police inspector and waxes fat. So too does the Mau Mau, for so far it has won every
round
against British Buthority.
Dug-out Dedan of the scarred face and three-Angered left hand was once slim, but he has put on a
a couple of stone and there is every · reason for his scam- Bursting self-satisfaction.
At the end of the first six months of this war the Meu Mau
By FRANK MacGARRY
ago beat by 24 hours the highly secret screening of that reserve area.
Artny
A recurity-rhrouded sweep of the deep lateral vai- leys of the reserve round the Fort Hall district disclosed that every man of the Mail Mau artny age-groups bad dia appeared.
And against all this we pit: An intelligence system which there are no more than six men whe speak Kikuyu; a high percentage of very gallant Kikuya who are shaky about our ability to project them; committee of police, soldiers, and Government representa-
to Mau Mau as soon as plan ned.
All the while Dedan Kimathi picks his punches, demonstrates by massacres like that of Lari that the Mau Mau eath is n better Insurance than fealty to the great white Queen.
peen-settled
Meanwhile, up in the Euro- Dedan dangles before his tribe highlands which like a Juley carrot as a reward for a nu Mau victory, The settlers live under conditions like those of blitz-stricken Londoners.
And in Nairobi, 100 miles south from the hole in the ground where Dedan sits and plans his next surprise. they eat, work, and sleep with the r guns all because of the little man with the spreading waist-
A Mairy-
strength has grown enormously, lives who organise anti-Mau Hne who was once discipline is high, supply lines Mau strikes which are
Dit
unimpaired, and his intelll-
zence system is consistently out-
rting that
of hla
chemy.
Ranged against him are ap- proximately 6,000 European and African troops, 8,000 European- led African police, and 11,000 white and African Home Guard. A total of 25,000.
True, on his side the army in the field .never' exceeds 100 at any one time, and their complete armament does not exceed 200 assorted guns.
GUERILLA GLOSSARY
ATERERI!--{t la Kikuyu for "beware” and is utter-
ed by, dangerous men armed with these Mau May weapons:-
SIMI - a double-edred #word, nearly a yard long. It can sever a limb at a blow.
PANGA - tmaller than the simi And with only one edge. But i can be ne deadly.
But he has, with the Mau orth, compelled
Mau
reserves
of 120,000 Kikuyu of the 17 to 30 age group, conscripts whom he, con call into action at any time over hundreds of
square miles of territory.
And in this jungle and semi-
General
known band.
"YOU ARE A SPY!!
*VOICE AMERICA"
Preceding chapters: Airey Neave has escaped with RAF fighter pilot Norman. Forbes from a German prison camp, Stalag XXa, in Poland. Dressed as Polish workmen, they tramp in bitter weather eastwards towards Warsaw and the Russians, But at the frontier they fall too exhausted to resist - Into the hands of German guards and are taken to the local Gestapo headquarters at Plock. On the way Forbes manages to dispose of an airfield map (they had hoped for an opportunity to escape by air), but Neave cannot find his.
spy.
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AMERICA'S REPLY TO THE "COMET"
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CHAPTER SIX OF
"THEY HAVE
THEIR EXITS”
By AIREY NEAVE
felt
D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C.
on
and
the north bank of the Vistula. We sat beside our guards on wooden seats and talked to them about the war. Our
opinion left them hitting dumb and open-mouthed and even shocked.
perspiration
face neck and trembled B I stood before the desk. I could not
We knew more than they did, for within the fort at Thorn there вреак. He was a closely guarded. wireless watched me for receiving set beneath the boards
his
eyes,
spoke
slowly.
voice. There WES menace
was
- д full minute of my room which someone had with murder in smuggled in a medicine ball from
pale urcy Spar
Spangenburg. Then he It
evening when we again reached Thom, and at the guard- N, the entrance door to craft, since Forbes was
There room was an angry. Feldwebel was A the Gestapo building a pilot.
..slow who had been in charge of the menace In his guards from whom we escaped. wooden hatchi Wax "You are lying. You are Sometimes he looked round
Drawing his revolver he led us, lifted and a grim face a
in the with our hands above our heads, You were taking fearfully for the warder pale grey eyes of the man with to two semi-circular chambers in appeared. We were hustled this to the Russians." who was busy opening doors the scar Es ho glared
at me the outer wall used as
store for jungio land of bamboo forest, to a small room and stood
"No, we were not, We along the gallery.
across his desk.
rotting awedes and timber. The banana groves, and wattle plan- there waiting. A burly S.S. tations the simi, the panga, and man pushed me to one side as the three Canadian pilots the boy. "I know. They are Where did you get it?
were trying the same game
"We are not satisfied with this doors were of sheet iron and on "You are English," said aerodrome has come from a Pole.
sketch. This plan of the the floor were a the bow and arrow are as bend as he passed into an office, who the other day climbed talking about it in the kit-
a few old sacks to serve us bedding. The Feldwebel ly as guns.
Then came a man in plain into an aircraft to fly to Dedan, known
locked us in separate chambers told you "I have
I got it Russia to his followers, and his clothes with blond hair and Sweden."
We poor Poles are from another prisoner of war." and stamped off along the moat, kan second-in-command, known a pale, cruel face. He shout
Wo had Awearing as he went. "Name?" he demanded. My interrogator had not-tory." His eyes glistened. s-General China-(rumour-runs ed at us to remove every heard of this attempt. He we have suffered enough." you stay with the Gestapo until shut up there for several days.
waiting for the day of vic"I will not tell y
escaped the Gestapo, but, our in- suit to the German Army must among the Kikuyu that at the
"AU right, English gentleman, now be expurgated. We were inoment decided by Dedan, the thing from our pockets.
rang up Stalag XXa and Russian and Chinese Armles
We emptied, crushed and confirmed my story. Then he
you think better of your ob- will land
on the coast), are broken bits of bread and pressed a
Then he dragged away stinacy. Go, Herr Neave, and ruthless with their followers.
bell. A great the steaming container. I think things over." A who loses his gun chocolate, parts of maps, a gorilla of a man in plain lifted the bowl to my mouth nust find another or die; minor box of matches concealing a clothes
When I got back to my, cell I and breaches are punished by flog-small compass, and
carrying a and greedily drank a taste- saw upon the door the notice: luid drawn revolver entered. gings or torture.
less swill of bad potatoes and
NEAVE, AIREY! them on the table before "You are going to prison swedes. him.
now," said the S.S. man, "You will be shot if you try to escape."
man
*
(5
Desertion, means the exter- Inination of the deserter's family.
The army in the field, which consists of crime-wanted men,
is divided into companies strong.
E
chen.
節
SPY.
you."
WHEN we were released quiet
days passed in our rooms in the fort describing our ex- pariences and writing veiled allusions to them in our letters I day upon my bed, too home. I found myself refreshed frightened even, to move. First and Invigorated by my few days I prayed, then I cursed and of freedom.
I knew
hands of the
55 節 looked at these objects
I walked with the gorilla FOR two whole days I slept on paced about the cell.
One night about three o'clock my hard bed waking only to that once in the with disgust and without in silence through the eat bread and tumilp soup and Gestapo there was small hope of I opened my eyes to see a huge interest. Then suddenly, he streets of Plock and came to for half an hour each day to any return to the German High German shining a torch at me. torch light faintly It is headquartered in the unfolded a small bit of a
severe modern prison take exercise in the courtyard. Command which administered the The forests of Aberdares, Mountpuper from my wallet.
I with the forbidding title' of the exercise the prisoners camp at Thorn, From the Army luminated his eyes and a gold Kenya, and Marmoset, but each watched in horror-it was Strafgefanguis, where I was followed by warders waving happened to the victims of the immediately.
alone there was hope of military tooth. ranks doing me justice.
No one knew company is only a nucleus for
missing offensive torties out of the the
of joined .by Forbes. Our tids, Two of the Inmates were Gestapo. bamboo jungle.
|Graudenz aerodrome. clothes and what remained priests in cassocks who stumbled When the "evening meal".
"So, my friends, you are of from the Secret Service""'
our belongings were and fell. Another prisoner, o appeared the Polish boy smiled taken from us and we were poor lunatic with a long Diane at me sadly as he ladled cam led They took me upstairs given grey prison garments of hair, ran in the wrong direc- soup.
By night many of these Mau Mau forcibly indoctrinated men
become panga SEDES(775, and the next morning they are back
map
in two
nastics and then
ran in a circle
what
in their bomas (farms), in- where a young S.S. officer that felt like boards against a warder.
tion chased by a great sadist of You are going tomorrow.""
nocently tenting their wattles, in uniform began to fire the skin. banana trees, and hump-backed cattle.
questions in English. As I They separated me from Women, driven by the terror answered I heard a type: Forbes and I was led up
Mau Mau, sweat through writer behind of the.
me tap out iron stairs to a gallery on the mountain-slope forests, carrying great loads of frowood my replies.
one side of the prison. The He interrogated me close and food. They are difficult to intercept, for it would take twoly about our escape from divisions of troops to seal of the camp, and about the Kikuyuland from the surround-
plan of the nerodrome:
forest belt:
I
inko bring up fresh sup- told him we had planned to
plie
of clothing, which they escape by stealing an air have dyed jungle' green from horne-made wood-bark dyes.
Kách Mau” Mau inlilate Jorick 1078, Tom your minimum, and. It is believed that this hus already shised £600,000, which is divided equally among the oath administrators, the opera = tion fund, and the secret bead- quarters based in this city.
The second revenue source is looting.rulda,. v.
And what an intelligefce system, Dedan has gott Hi ngbata are evolywhere, even in this hotel where I liyo.
Mau Mau duspects have been foundation the "dming-room, batroon, and bar staffs. " There are Mau Mau multe among the Africam stans of public utilities and the telephone system, und evention the African Home Guardato
Again and again police, and Army "Ontepaorkmuyuland have down?? antiálpated hourly aqua N
warder opened the door of a cell on the second floor and gave orders:
"Take your boots off?"
:
Forbes and myself. our bilstered feet not yet healed, from the other inmates. were permitted to walk apart
hour.
who led me through the streets
There was no time to ask him more. The warder came and hurried him away.
IN
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瓿
2
"Get up and be ready to move We have had enough trouble with you.!!
omid
I dressed in complete darkness
from amid sleepy snatches of conver- my room-mates. They
about my were gloomy future. Were the army. sur- rendering me to the philosophers
the Gestapo? There were lights on the draw- bridge as was led there through the passages of the fort, and shadowy figures stamped
o!
I
a web of terror and specula- their feet, talking in English, and opened my cell door at an un- that I was once more tramping Forbes, Squadron Leader Paddon
One afternoon the warder tion I fell asleep to dream eve
even laughing. I recognised usual
"The Gestapo through dark stagnant swamps and Lieutenant - Commander wants you," he said curtly, and on the road to Russia.
Stephenson, RN, who a short handed me over to on S.S. man awoke to the sound of the time before had tried to escape I did as I was told, slowly
eternal prison keys.
The sun In a dust cart and involved of Plock. and painfully, then lay upon
was shining in the cell and the themselves in violent altercation door was open. Trembling,
I braced myself with the Feldwebel at the gate. a hard mat-
I climbed the to meet death. The wardon stood. Each steps with him to the Gestapo there, tress and slept building and entered a new
bundle as we stood waffing in dreamlessly office, on the first floor, where me but only said with unwonted from the fort.
He did not throw my boots at the cold night air to be taken until the even-a man in civilian clothes tat friendliness:
alone at a desk. He had a scar Get dressed, Herr Lestrank ing
across his check and close-cut, I awoke as a dark hair.
You are
key turned in. 陨
the lock and
1
going back to Thorn with
comrade your
tho Oberleutnant of the
Herr Leutnant! We were no
of us carried a small
en
"WHERE in hell are we so-
Ing?" I exclaimed. To the, Bad Boys' Camp at Colditz."
I did, not know where Colditz
the door open- A POLISH woman stood in front longer spies. Spring and ed, revealing a of him in grey prison dress. I bed seized my clothes and boots Polish boy in tow her bare feet as she stood in wild.delight and dressed as it was, nor would the Germans tell.
to attention in Polish fashion it were the first day of the prison clothes with the palm of her bands school holidays. dragging a against her thighs. She was a Wo were
handed
brek
Cat greatly flattered that so in my prison, career I DECK our
be singled out as 4 bony and escaping clothes in exchange for great container working
sallow, but looking with splendid the convict uniform. Jokingly like a boy who, Bogged by the nuisance to the enemy. I was with delace at the creature at the gave the gloomy prison quarters headmaster proudly disple -filled
soup.
komastée a ploce of Red Cross stripes.
displays his Here was a woman who would chocolate. He looked at it as if I snatched a never surrender. When her in- it were a' jewel, then stuck it
desk.
Woman,
tin bowl from terrogation was finished, she was furtively in the pocket of his Journey by train was an
which no one could
ono corner of led away by another 6.3. guard, tunle and put his finger to his resist. Each prisoner was alert I caught her eye and mailed, Ups: He returned my pipe, "to- and ready for the slightest my cell and he The man at the desk was hurious, basco and the box of matches, chance to get away, Int we were
"Or on, mile of her. English. I opened the matchber pering to me officer Julenisticted this-war, my" pips; sind. Klayar 2017 - honvilý- querdes, even in the 1
opened my eyes to filled it, whis-
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