1953-05-02 — Page 5

GRIM MAU MAU RULE

From Frank MacGarry

Nairobi.

RIM, is the picture of jungle rule

G Mau Mau

disclosed with the publica- tion of captured documents in which Mathari township, within sight of Nairobi'n Government House, was

identified as the headquar ters of the terror organisk- tion.

Found have been documenta of Mau Mau's terrorist rules uver its own followers

and

evidence that, in the shambling mile or more of huts, there had sat Mou Mau' high courts. These courts, it is revealed, had ined and sxecuted weak-hearted members by drowning, burying alive and sometimes by hanging from roof poles by candlelight to impress

other Mau Mau brethren,

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Mather is now no more; it has been cleared of people and bulldozed out of existence. Among the 80 Africans detained. the Government claims, are men who wore the ringleaders of M u Mau since the original leaders were rounded up Inst October.

Thirteen of them are Kikuyu and Ielude the

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One of the remaining two is

A Wakambu (a tribe racially related to the Kikuyu); the other is a member of the war- rlor Aboluyla tribe from North

Nyaza, where su far there has been no hint of Mau Mau infec- ⚫tion.

Police say it was these ring- leaders who drew up rules last October after the original police swoop. These ordered members 10 continue the fight because, if The crased,

Government would announce that this the result

lealers.

Savage

Mau army:

was

THIS FERVENT

the of arresting

penalties were

pased by the rules on the

who failed In their mission.

FRIEND

OF THE WEHRMACHT

0.one would have be-

N

lieved it in 1945. The

pulverised German

cities and the de- jected grey-green MASSEA tm-swamping Allied prisoner-

Mau

by

MILTON SHULMAN

of-war camps seemed com- pelling evidence that the toned the moral basis of the Nazis, that

Nuremberg Irlols. He

the

general

of

Death for intelligence couriers myth of German military in- actively campaigned for the ad-

for millance of Germans.inio the Allied armies which came vincibility was dead

European Defence Community liberate them." on a basis of full equality.

Death for non-members who witnessed the oath-taking cere- mony..

Death for "company" leaders who bungled a "milltary" opera- tion, and death for all their family, cattle and other living property,

ever.

Yet, only eight years after- wards, the fables back with

Nar has he neglected them us, flourishing as unabashedly as a fruitful source of informa- and arrogantly as ever before. tion for his articles and books. After the First World War the He has produced their account excuse for the Wehrmacht's de of the war called "The Other feat had been "the stab in the Sule of the HU back" Inflicted by civilians the home front. Death for those who African poisons or medicines for

W ub killing people "because poisons could be traced by the police."

THE LEVIES

USIN

Finally here was the death sentence generally imposed on ail who did not penform their duties satisfactorily in not helping to bring about the Government's downfall.

Files rated like this: Eighty-five shillings for a first offence in contarlingg with Kikuyu who are still undecided about the Mau Mau caine, and death for the second offence; 15 shillings to 20 shillings for con- sorting with a European; 40 shillings for

fighting with

011

the Normandy, and

bulk of waging of war, his letters home Allied and German military to his wife are practically the Insignifl- opinion agrees his plan was a most uniterary and bad one. In short, Rommel cant notes ever to see the light

of print. will probably be judged by his- tory

first- as no more than a class armoured corps or army commander.

be- Yet listen to what

if Capfalu Liddell

Hart means by "most correct" that German omcers saluted polite ly before shooting hostages or shipping victims off to Buchen wald, I am sure he is quite

His comments

up- on his ponents are almost invariably generous. He had the utmost and courage Captain respect for the

to

has haviour of the German Army Liddell Ilart. has to say about tenacity of the Brush soldier. "He wan. better than that the him the introduction to Of Montgomery he says:

This, rirked nothing. In any way lo "The Rommel" Papers."

'he "Glaims," is the most vivid doubtful and bold solutions

completely foreign and valuable account of a cam- were

com- him." palgn ever written by a com-

And "The Rommel Papers mander, and that does not ex- crot either Napoleon or Caesar. should settle for all time Rom- Rommel's successes "bear the mel's personal relations with

Hiller hall-mark of military genius.

There is not a single a combined genius and origi line in all these pages written nality rare among those usual- by Rommel himself which ly acclaimed

respectful and great anything but masters of war." He was one devoted to the Fuehrer. of the "few eminent commun-

"The Rommel Papers" should to

gain distinction Hos be of interest to military his- military thinker and writer."

students torians and

because eulogy It seems

In face

the of Luch fawning they illustrate the tactics,

dis limitations and the narrowness almost respectful to counter it wit

wlth of Erwin Rommel. The casual

sink of Rommel's

this quagmire of

professional What

his fellow Germans jargon long before the finish. think of him? Field Marshal

of

right. The Wehrmacht was punctiliaus about, that sort He has written an admiring thing.

General Second

Heinz in the

foreword

bool

"Panzer dif Guderian's

But on any other objective War came from #

Leader." Not only was Guderian level his fadings must be com- ferent direction. Wielded from Le above, the dagger that destroy Innovator of armoured tactics pared with those of the Nurem- of berg Tribunal which wrote of ed the German Army this lime and a vigorous commander was held in the faleful-bands-panzer_troops, but he was also man who became the Adolf the of that lowly corporal,

army's chief of staff after the July 20 plot to assassinate Hit- ler failed,

Hiller

That, at least, is the theme running through the tidal wave of memoirs and biographies of German officers which has been flooding the book market lale- Jy

of the

EVEN MORE

CUDERIAN displayed his royal-

another member: five shillings for fervent and articulate supporter more formidable effort in attending a Mou Mau meoling in the person of Captain B. H.

while drank; two shillings for failing to attend a meeting and 64 for arriving late at a meeting. Every Kikuyu was levied 258, yearly; only schoolchildren and cripples were exempted. Kikuyu are superstitious about cripples, regarding them as unlucky...

And at the end of the rules was the most significant comment. It maick "The compenses of visitors who are concernet? with our work will be paid from fines collected by the courts if there is no money in the treasury. But there is always money in the treasury because there · are Dokmany offences committed."

munist zuzenta or members

other roses, Asian or European, in Konu Koolr.

Liddell Hart.

even his

CAPT. LIDDELL HART

Jer

the

tonie lesse opinions reader will probably

did

zenlus,

von Rundstedt, who was Rom- mel's senior In Normandy: He was a brava man, and a very

in capable commander

small operations, but not really qualified for high command,”

TOO STRANGE-

ENERAL

They bemoan the orders the Fuchrer and condeinn mad decisions that cast them ty by demanding that every so much in blood and prestige. general staff officer immediate- But these German generats ly declare himself in public a are not alone in their concep- convert or adherent of Nazism. And now Captain Liddell tion of their own greatness.

Hart has just finished on They have, in this country, u

HALDER, the army chief-of-staff: dedicated task of polishing up

history succeeds in unravelling the tarnished reputation of the

the threads of what finally went on in Africa It will have Germon Army. He has edited and written a most eulogistic

achieved a miracle, for Rom Introduction to "The Rommel Papers" (Collins, 25s.).

mel managed to get things in- the officers of the

to such an unholy muddle that What, then, are Liddell Hart's general staff and the high com- 1 doubt whether anyone will ever be able to make head or conclusions about the Germans mand: "They have been a dis- after such

a friendly rubbing fession of arms....The

pro- tall of it." grace to the honourable

truth of elbows? The German is they actively participated in

Then what of his wriling? It generals of this war were the best-finished product of

all these crimes or sat silent is true that Rommel has a gift their

wilnessing for a meticulous reconstruction profession-anywhere," he

acquiescent, has the commission of crimes on of the details of a battle. But written, without apparently

et scale larger and more shocking there are only rare flashes bothering to hear what the

excitement in these pages than the world has ever had blossomed Russians might have to say

heavily weighted with military. corollary about so sweeping a generalise the misfortune to know."

tion.

You may remember Captain Ludell Hart, Before the war he was the loudest exponent of attacking the theory that no force could have a reasonable chance of success unless it had a three-to-one superiority weapons and men.

BOUNCED BACK

FROM

TROM this there

the comforting that since Germany

In

was

not

likely ever to attain such superiority over the combined

21

side

and

German

minuUpe.

armoured it is.

History.

to would Beem

As to its value as the raw much material of history, it is cum- The German officers, on their have settled, without

Rommel's relative cult to know how to assess it. pact, have been

less trouble, DO The Special Branch are seeking forces of Britain and France, to, discover who the "visitors"

objective" the war in the West was like generous in their admiration of stature as a general. He was a I am less than satisfed that it

Captain Liddell Hort. General courageous and dynule soldier is as "remarkably

Hurt says ano-whether they aru Comy to settle down into a cost- Guderian has called him some with a flair for the audacious as Captain, Liddell

ly stalemale with neither

what fulsomely

best and unexpected in "the capable of achieving victory.

Rommel's desire to Justify

him Now one might have thought analytical brain in the world," warlare.

General von Manteuffel, who Army commanded that when the French

But his defects were obvious his strategy lends panzer army in and serious enough to disquall are sometimes too. strange

„Deductions and omissions was overwhelmed In 1040 much the Ardennes, hos praised him fy him as one of the of Liddell Hart's reputation as as "the, creator of modern tank military minds of our

great

be accidental. time. a milliary expert would have

And strategy." ahared its fate. toin has bounced back with the lister in "The Rommel Pepers them up even more boldly.

back with the modestly inserted by the pule They were known before, and

"The Rommel

point resilience and pugnacity of Mr tells us that Rommel believed

POCKET CARTOON

by OSDERT LANCASTER

"I'll be n'and day for Mrs, Cholmondeley-Fausherstone» haugh if ever this simplified spelling. Hili goes through 1””,

Punch..

footnote

Papers

into

that to

lists the failure to attack and

For example, take Malla as one of the major German blunders in the Ath

although

he

Britain could have avolded Ila Intellectual Imitations can campaign,, he never slates He has since written almost most of her defeats if we had were evident in his inability to that it was largely on his ad- as many ariicies and letters ex only listened to Liddell Hart, plaining that what most people

noi

saying at

thought he had said was

what he had been

all.

But self-justification has

by

no means occupied all of the

ASTONISHING.

captain's energles. He bag, NOR does this amlable daly

delegate authority, his contempt vice that this

for detailed planning, his fatal taken.

bregat of the supply alde of total strategy, and his alinost unconcern about operational In- telligence.

waa

decision was

ON 'MONTY'

In Africa his command since the end of the war, des

FTER the fall of: Tobruk in chain of mutual admiration never more than the equivalent Aˆ veloped a growing fondness and stop there. For the captain, not of six or seven German divi-

1042, the Italian Supreme respect for the defeated senior to be outdone, has also pet out signs, and these he handled Command and Kesselring both officers of the Wehrmacht. He to whitewash the moral reputa brilliantly. But even his chief wanted to proceed with the in- has constituted himself a sort tion of the German Army, as o-ring, General Westphal, con- vation of Malta. But this would of combined publicity man, wet well.

demns-him for serious strategi- have meant 'n nause on Rom- nurse, and outraged conscience

mol's drive for Egypt He was As if finding their behaviour cal errors.

sconadent? of success that ho their behalf."

"most correct" was not enough,

to postpon ho

on

his the Malta operation until

Ho organised a campaign to he has written this astonishing Affer Africa he had nothing convmoed Hiller xot better pelon treatment seritence: in visiting the Do. but 'defent to add to for Rundstedt, Brauchitsch cupled countries of the West, record. He disagreed with had reached Alexaridela

Since Rommers Interests and Manstein while they were since the war I have often been Rundstedt about how the Alljed awaiting trial. He has ́ques candidly fold, by staunch anti Invasion should be mot in were confined entirely, to the

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