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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1953.

THIRD OATH

-and Mau fights on

REDAN KİMDAYMI, BAU MAU C.-G.. aku kan za GENERAL MUSSIA, vamalimen the suptural underm of an khstan bementer Bartzone Top joute of The andake negara ar tre luft name mount

Fa selamatkan treding to his arrest-

£500 Reward

BEHIND the seeming lul) in Kenya the Mau Mau struggle begins a new phase. And the symbol of it is the picture on the left- the first ever published of the man known as General Russia

The Army-has- a way of minking the forests talk. And it knows that comething big is moving in the Mau Mau hide- outs,

Changes are being mad, In the Kikuyu age-group system. This means more re- cruits called in from the TO

- · parves, it may mean a change

by JOHN REDFERN reporting from Kenya

even a fakir accustomed to nap ping on knives, would recoll.

La something too to see the thoutenda of Kikuyu gourds manning their izolated stations. Uniform: a patch of yellow cloth on the hend (for alr identifica- tion) and a tin en-badge.

perhaps. a Weapons:

ago.

gun,

months

And the "home front' Surprisingly, after a year of danger and strain, the hotheads have not gained ground.

in the Council of Elders perhaps only a pike. Morale: backing the five Mau Mau much better than four "generals" with com- mands in the Aberdares and Mount Kenya.

For centuries, until the looks as though the

white men came with thel- R.A.F. types who, in pla helmets and spine-packs, bad weather, scattered the Kikuyu were governed by some 250,000 "Save your councils of mine, life now" leaflets over the is a recrct council today. foresta were just a lot of gallant litter louts.

I

The leaflets told the Mau Mau to come in, and pro- mised they would not be punished for the death- sentence crimes of consort ing with terrorists or carry- ing weapons. But the Mau Mau are not coming in.

and there

But nobody knows whether this ceunell bosses the

"Ken- erals" or the generals boss the council.

"General" Dedan Kimathi and his colleagues (who

a built up among the Kikuyu as have sent their "Monty" was with his soldiers) brigadiers, as they call the leaders of 'ench terrorist group, ou from the

replace

foresis to organise ments.

Instead they are regroup.

They are prepared to settle ing and recruiting in the down to a long battle in the forests of the Aberdares undergrowth. By night, in ones and Mount Kenya, where and twes, replacements ca

Into this vast region there are now "hard core" sneak formations numbering prob. Commander-in-Chief.

whatever General Erskine, the does ably 2,500-about 1,000 of about it. them with some kind of fire. power.

Every day they are har ried by British and African fighting patrols, but there is such a lot of forest. Three thousand square miles of the stuff.

Only_language

I AM drafting this in the

The fanatics

fanatical

Be sure that only

Me Maut men are wanted now in the forests. Each terror-

group consists of about ten men armed with guns, 20 other "soldiers," and 40 to 50 others for work as runners, scouts,

and porters.

Now the Mou Mau third Oath" vernes in. The rites are bamboo forest east oľ

no beastly, so jorrible, that the Mount Kinangop. The pencil- man who has passed them has Morning Post straight trunks dwarf a cold his soul to Mau Mau.

man. The dead bamboo

Thi; ooth cutrages the tradi- underfoot cracks like 11 tional Kikuyu

nte. way of

the pistol shot.

There is no way back for oath takers. Mau Mau binds these men by destroying them.

Limited

Telephone 20002

and ask for

Mr. Labrum

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The patrolling soldiers move cautiously. They look like underwater explorers in the green half-light. They arc ears with legs Always listening.

They are outside all but the track that lends to death: but first they

kill in must on, forests.

Here-visibility 20 yards -the pucat of the snapping bamboo is the only language the deep-hidden spenks.

Starvation

the

How to defeat these fanatics enemy with their

heads down in 3,000 square miles of trackless To the visitor this is the shadow? Today, uth, Tuddy General Erskine considera nightmare of a man lost in a

starvation

war. 4 weapon of

maze

to

of giant knitting: Tais must be if we are not needles. To the Mau Mau be fighting here for years.

That blurred flutter In the forest's langle has a steach.

it is perhaps bastion.

the

lasi

In these forests that look tells it by theft-cattle, sheep, as solid and empty as the potatoes... there is a shake-up going mountain range further up.

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Hence General Erskine is con- centrating farm workers at supervised points to prevent the leakage of food from terrified dupes.

Much talk

HEAR much talk of beter things of improved Incentives for town workers, of same form of old-age security for. de- tribalised Africans, of European support for an organisation to the discredited Kenya replace African Union.

The signposts are being put up by the European elected members of Kenya's Parlio- ment. Let us hope they have the courage to build the road shead.

But don't expect a miracle in the bamboo forests.

Signposts are useless in the forest. There are 110 roads. The timeless forest at this point of time is on the Mau Mau's side.

AND THROUGH the Cummings TELESCOPE...

SHAMPOOED

NEW SIGHT

DE-MILITARISED]

DE-NAZIFIED

CONDUCT

AMERICAN DIPLOMA

GOOD

Signed: J.EDULLET

DE-JACK BOOTED

GERMANY

Dr. Adenauer's blue-eyed boy.

Cummings

London Express Service

The 'LITTLE PROFESSOR' EXPOUNDS HIS THEORY

London, Sept. 12. HE ten-year-old school- boy whose case history of illiteracy - to - bril- liance in two years amazed the British Association, went to bed last night with his favourite encyclopaedia tucked under his arm and a delighted smile on his little pink face.

Master Robert Jamieson had just heard from his parents and from me how the Association looked on him as a wonder boy. For two years ago Robert could not read; he learned in four months and now he talks

like a pint-size professor.

Now he can propound this type of theory: "I can- not understand why at my age I should hate girls when

when I am I know perfectly well that 17 I shall be chasing them.”

His teachers find it hard to keep up with his vast technical knowledge

and they report his progress as "miraculous."

The general has stopped the growing of maize and potatoes within three miles of the edge When Robert's remark- of the forest. All livestock within reach of the forest Mauable story was told to the Mou must be put inside special Association, stockados at night-and watch- was kept a close secret. towers are being built to sec

they stay there.

These posts are belted by 'o dry moat stuffed with dogger-

his

Identity

By

two years

ogo,

the

when They made this favourite.

entering htm

psychologists

Joyce

Stewart

test on Centre.

WHY SHOULD I HATE GIRLS AT TEN WHEN I KNOW PERFECTLY WELL I'LL CHASE THEM AT 177

He reads six library books "It was most kind of Dr

too flattering- encyclopaedias and

on

The Association were fold how he had described:-m

Blot No. 1 as-It looks like a extru with. two cat's pelvis bones stuck on."

Robert's randy explanation yesterday-That was easy. I had seen a cat's pelvis-in fact,

skeleton-at entire its museum a couple of years be- (orc."

О

Blot No. 2 asLike a inleroseeple photograph of two fighting shrimps,"

Robert's explanation yester- day: "That was more involved. I am intensely interested in the study of fish and animals, and, as you know (did 17), the chrimp family are distantly re- tated to the lobster family, Lobsters are known to fight, but the blots were too sinall for lobsters, so, I just substituted shrimps."

Hother views on:-

AMERICA COLUMN

trem NEWELL ROGERS

THUNDER FROM THE PULPIT

New York. ROM the high pulpit of

FRO

St Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue a voice thunders against women who work in office and fac- tory.

The Rev. Francis Duffy says it is the reason women Bre dissatisfied and discon- fented. They have to com- pete with men. They pour themselves Into A materialis

is by

tle mould.

He says'

that woman npture made to be understand- ing. patient long-suffering. tender, merciful, loving in the full sense of giving,

"In the

home she plays her essential

and is indispensable, "No matter how successful a

women may be in business, sha

not fulfilling her true func- tion."

Given Father Duffy's strong bellets, There

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renson for

alarm. More married women than ever before are working in America,

married More middle-aged women are returning to work, or. OL. working for the first time. 19,000,000

women, employed 10,400,000 are married.

DRITAIN'S financial eltuation Ls "very encouraging," sald Mr Reginald Maudling, Economic Secretary 10 the

Lon Treasury, arriving from don for the Washington money talks.

“Our reserves of gold dollars continue

respectable rate

andi

Q to rise at

"Following the 1951-2 crisis there was rapid recovery. This is continuing at a slower pace than six months ago."

G

RL Guide Lissa Chisholm for home in St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, after a holiday as a guest of. Ameri-

can Girl Guides.

She left mystifled by the preoccupation of American girls her age with one subject... boys.

"At Sald 17-year-old Lissa: 14 they talk of nothing else. And by 17 little more."

LISSA and the girls from other countries on a US. tour mado hates to decide the right age to begin wearing make-up.

Thirteen, sald Americans and-- Canadians,

Sixteen, said the British and Scandinavians.

Eighteen, said

Italians and. Greeks,

CURIOUS

thrill goes A through Hollywood at the

NOWB

that the highbrow Indy

with the acid tongue and antique grondeis returning." from England soon.

For to Hollywood Dame- Edith Sitwell, poot and culture historian, represents with a capital C. Her imperious. presence enhances Hollywood's

that it

cultural feeling capital.

Dame Edith goes bark to shaping the screen continue play of her novel "Fanfare for. Elizabeth." She worked on the script eight hours a day · for: three months in Hollywood early this year,

MARGOT FONTEYN has al-

tained realness by

living

ERE Art some of Robert's utterly for her art and having little life outside it, writes ballet addlet Sachevereli Sitwell in the New York Times.

· ARITHMETIC: 1. He it when the sums come out right, but I hate it when I am in the fog.

POLITICS: Conservatives are rich people who can pay the taxes; Socialists are poor people who can't. On the whole I preferred the Socialist regime.

sharp wattle stakes from which I FOUND the wonder boy in Pringle to praise me so, a week (his favourites are the editorials over breakfast. The

to kill Europeans when called on."

Miss Fonteyn and 08 other members of the Sadler's Wells Company crossed the Atlantic in two chartered airliners for their season at the Metropolitan Opera House.

Their American manager, Sol Hurok, claims the "largest Transatlantic theatrical transfer ever recorded" for this air leap NEWSPAPERS: I like to read-plus 67,000 items of equipment

which arrived by ship. other day I read loader saying The the Council wanted to improve Curious Lobster" books Solihull (a district in Birming

can be improved. It looks per- favoulte radio programme rectly ell right as it fu. is "Science Survey," and "As the British Associa- metal polisher, his mother, tion have so freely

the Third, and he spends all a charwoman, and his two their views on me, I feel en-

his spare time making his little

model aircraft. sistera, Christine,

titled to air mine on them. eight, and Pamela, six.

"In company with four others 1 to-back house in Tiverton am not really as clever as by Richard Hatch), his hem). Not that I com eco how it live in the Sahara Desert, where

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"Darling, do let's work aut the number of letters of com. gratulation sorʼre not going ....., to have to write 1o juureks

a squat, red brick, back- But It is

Road, Selly Oak, Birming- ham, where he lives with his father, a Scots-born

that.

aired

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FRIENDS: A boy I know calls empo That isn't a very complimentary nickname, Amthor boy I know, lo vory babyish. Orice he tried hard to "I don't know who Robert be a little more adum, but he "As a casual observer, I

takes after,"

says his over the politeness and nobody they are Birmingham University Re think

doing mother. "As a toddler he led it, so he gave up trying. medial Education Centre for magnificent work in bring was always asking ques HIS HERO: I.blush to admit boys and girls who are ing scientific and other re- tions. Now we ask them and be Dan Dare, the enan, in the backward at normal school. search into the public eye." he gives us all the answers, comic. My second favourite is

Half a mile away is the

Robert attends here twice

boy.

Young Robert la not only

ho

of

"At Ave. ho used words milo long and at even astounded us all by denouncing

theory of evolution,

Neville Duke.

BY NOTE; A Duke Univer

sity expedition is going to temperatures often reach 140 degrees, for a year to discover how camels stand it.

com-

WET NOTE: Two giant hydro-

electric works just ploted will scoop up water. stored on the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains and siphon it in a 13-mile tunnel to Irrigato 200,000 desert acres In eastern Colorado. POSTAL clark Hubert Hutt,

charged at Denver, Colorado, with misappropriating DOVEN crita (4d.), was released on bail of 100 dollara (£170),

NE of the top Republicans, L. Stephero,

O Warren

a week and has risen from a boy with the intelligence the dullcat pupil to the star of a man twice his age, Adam and Eve, in favour

Ho is an embryo Bernard Darwin's

which he had heard, explained HE Centro forecast a brilliant enorguð from a secret Congres-- It was Dr Mia Kellmer Shaw, Sir Edward Appleton by a profesor on the radio.". Pringle, the Centre head, (the Association president), who described his case to and Neville Duke rolled

into one. the Association, "y-

future Es a 'scientist for Robert, His parents want him to go to a university "and serve can understand the his country. In any way he can." Robert most abstruse intellectual con- verantian, and... hila memory · ́ip....

Bu! Robert himself has only such that he can givò a com- one ambition—to be an acroplane prehensive procis of it years plot, 20 for afterwards.-

When Robert heard this”. He has a Shavian wit, a

capacity last night, he adjusted his glutton's

For my part, if anyone le look- horn rimmed spectacles, scientific knowledge, and a

I naked Robert to explain his log foram erudite, “memaking draw himself up to his full tremendous passion for interpretation of ink blots which after-dinner speaker, Kabart's, the 8ft. Gins, and makl:'

modelling aircraft.

had dumbfounded tadahmendaki boy,

sional investigation • as a "four percenter"--- man. who gets rake-offs on

on the placing Government contracts.

Stephenson, one of Wakiing» ton's best-known party, giverę, as a manufacturer's représentan tive on a salary of some 24,000 dollars (£8,570) a year.

"He in gersini, mid smiling highlights - bouncing od kla `shining' paths.