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DON'T GET LOST IN THE SUGAR, OLIVER

World Copyright by arrangement with the Afanchester Guardian

THE GLOSTERS' COMMANDER SPEAKS OF LIFE AS A CAPTIVE OF THE REDS

I HAVE GAINED PRIDE AN ADDED IN BEING BRITISH

By LT.-COL. JAMES CARNE

C.O. of the 1st Battalion, Cloucestershire Regiment, who wrote this statement on his way home to England in the Empire Orwell.

affected very title by their captivity.

They are just the some good lot of fellows they have always been; and I am quite certain that their families will agree with me.

that there is nothing had very unpleasant, and strange about them

elther opinion of the outside world, the men

of The "enient sometimes terrible. enjoyment

experiences politically or otherwise. olley did not depend upon the which are unlikely to enter the acceptance of this argument, or syeton to any Briton.

The thought, oc fere, of such on the success of the education programune, otherwise mast of penthoor undoubtedly as would now be in a bad way. vided indirect pressure cy scime

benefits However, the

were prisoners, and this was uniques-

p:o-

A

Good For Us

THE COLONEL goes into HIDING BECAUSE A BOY HAS VISIONS

and out of Mau Mau land, a sinister threat

By Jack Ensoll

T people-an old

Nakuru, Kenya. so rapid as the mercurial HIS is the story of two rise of General China from man street corner to base head- and a boy. Both, in quarters. The general is their respective ways, have 28, the colonel is 71. notable achievements to

their credit. The old man In the panga-terrorised has been a great soldier. He high country of Kenya it la wears the ribbons of the the very old and the very suffer most. D.S.O., the O.B.E., and the young who M.C.

Witness six year old

Michael Ruck, hacked to Ile is one of the work's death in his nursery in B leading field naturalists, Kinangop farmhouse; 70- and you will find, at the year-old Mr James Mac- Natural History Museum, Dougall, crippltd with specimens that be has arthritis, killed by gang- collected from the Hima ters at Nyeri, not far from kome, layas, from Siam, and from Colonel Stockley's the burnt-slenna plains of last July. Africa. He has also col-

lected for many American Forest home

museums,

The boy's claim

to KENYA soon knew about celebrity is that he has the visions of the boy.

visions. He was born nine The gangs were out after

韻 pile of Colonel Stockley at the.

years ago

on

smoky skins in t round remote high place facing

hut on the fringe of

the Mount Kenya. Here he

forest on the lower slopes had built a house with a

of Mount Kenya,

his

beautiful garden in a forest clearing 16 years ngo,

be

Beenuse he has visions cause he thought to spend is assured the years remaining to him

in peace and solitude:

future among his people, for seeing visions is the summit of precocity among these dark sons of Mumbi, the mother 'of 'all Kikuyu,

Delinquency

THIS natural gift leads to

Intil his retirement from the Indian Army, in which he commanded the 3/14th Punjab Regiment, he had lived a life of wild adven- ture in various parts of the Empire.

the strangest and most

In his retirement he con- dangerous kind of juvenile tinued his naturalist's work delinquency. Compared with. in the wilderness of East the bulgy-eyed, pot-bellied Africa. And all his life he young Kikuyu, the cosh boy wrote books about the wild of the Western world is like places. the apples at the back of the the barrow pale, these books as.

i remember reading some of,

a boy,

Mic

N the early part of the war the enemy organisa- tion provided only the bare necessities of life for the prisoners, and this in- cluded food to which many found it difficult to accus

ports which have the im- tum themselves, and whleb. unduly who felt that he had a

約 retain life and Communiam or, less ambitiously, pression of indiscipline at porta in any case, lacked the right

health.. nourishment necessary to maintain complete health.

Soon after the Glosters group reached the prison camps in the extreme north

not such as to impress anyone tandbly part of the systematic THIS brings me to other re-small, and insignificant," dreaming then that one day I

Suffering

siterapi so obtain converts to

The boy who has visions should help to save the author

10 Sow to seeds of doubt, of call on the way home. I cau exhort the grown man from the vision of a nine-year-

vy,

SVEND

1

ת!

The pollee got to know that a large gang of Mau Mau were on

At disloyalty which will say nothing about these of his ridge or his clan or old Kikuyu. might later produce Rod flowers, reports except that I believe The bait that can be sad for them to be greatly exaggerated the Chinese is that most of us accounts of isolated incidents.

,velenso

very fair There is

a pleasanter side to health, but the experience the picture.

a. syrian

At Aden, all ex-prisoners of productee and Governed by politioni

passing through were not inhibited war com- and expeberay. De

entertained by the splendidly and by laws and ratulations civilians and R.A.F. The mem-

officers

FROM our first arrival in been separated: warrant officers pound:

in another; thus the know theen has loft enest of us sergeants or corporals

and privates were with 12e liking for our captors. deprived of the leadership and

in colour-sergeants:

of the country, conditions fixed camp the ranks had. Faving been under started to improve slowly but in the following months many of us showed the first signs of beri-beri, had other ailments due to vitamin deficiency.

Under

their views.

сау

our own mare

1-

باد

Unaffected

his tribe or, if he is with Mau Mau, the adult desperadoes of the gangs the move to carry out the kid- The old men listen to him, napping and subsequent killing and sometimes he

can of Colonel Stockley. Within 16 persuade people to murder. minutes a platoon of the King's

-African-Rifles arrived

ta

which

at-the the

..........

bers of the committee who The other day this boy isolated house organised this hospitality told had a vision that all would colonel had retired "to And me how much they had enjoyed be well again in Kikuyuland peace." seeing and entertaining the men. if a white man were cnp-

Simliarly...at the other ports

a

Frightened off

THE gung was frightened off

and

advice to which they were ne- they were not such conditions ustamed-but

without their own leadership.

of call on the way home, there tured and sacrificed on life and health are not

near the Mau Mau Many N.C.Os and men with wholly dependent, on

treat were always those who had hill food, strong characters came to the WHAT effect has this

headquarters in the forests leadership, V mint had on us? I know happy stories to tell.... shelter, and clothing; and fore and provided

Many of Lis would have above Nyeri.

return u speedier

pursued, and Colonel it is to their own resolution exposing the inaccuracies in the that, there have been some men

Communist propaganda, and converted to Communism. There preferred and optimism that some of presenting

After much talk in the Stockley was rushed out of the are also some who are far more home, but this short interval between release and home.

arca by a policeman of the the credit. must be given tonal' opinions. The majority anti-Communist than they were betwe

forest hide-outs, the local

Special Branch. - T19: for thus expressing before.

of coming has been good for for the fact that few Bri- suffered

The majority are, we are the better prepared to Mau Mau leader, ex-Nairobi course,

between We somewhere

With him went spiv,

his Kikuyu tish soldiers died in

take up the responsibilities, as

self styled now As with every other aspect of

these two categories,

General China,

described named gun-bearer Kabogo, tivity.

prison camp life, discipline was

It has been suggested that well as the joys, of home.

by his employer as one of the Already our captivity is losing Lieut.-Colonel Charles Hugh greatest, wild life collectors in By the following winter flucnred by polics. Any these meri are confused in their

O.B.E., Africa. its importance; it is fading Into

A few (1961-2) most were warm- prisoner who might be expected entiis shout polities.

to influcace his friends

Was impression is given that thereby the past; we look forward to a Stockley, D.S.O.,

M.C., of Nyeri, as the Kabogo netted in ly clad and the food hud

Tona lable to be consisted of some thyena la some way different brighter future.

River area a hitherto unknown improved, although it could effence, nad

viet.im. When all is said and done. his punishment from other cren,

specimen of butterfly. not be compared to a nor- successfully removed his re- Although I hove made no perhaps the majority of men

lengthy direct Schuiry netionary influence for

their will agree with my sumuning-up mal British diet.

political opinionis I thinic that of the results of the experience: Housing

crowded, eriol, WAS

I have gained an added pride Chinese mihords of Impression is incorrect: to my and, of course, comforts

often punishment were

priki- mind the vast majority of the in being British, and I have lost were generally non-existent. dive, and several officers and men appear to have been a little weight!

Conditions in the camps continued to improve slow-

ly and rather spasmodically Į

until we were released, and

by that time they could be considered reasonable.

Their Policy

be

The

90

to

art an

Nathaniel

HE news that there

is

མ

Won

has

years ago

the

Colonel Stockley

As soon as Mau Mau began, given a lifetime to the

had been even Kabogo, who service of his country, and with Stockley for 10 years, yet his promotion was not could not be entirely trusted. At the lownship of Nyeri Kabogo was taken to custody for questioning.

Gubbins

When I had influenza it would' greater compassion than

Meanwhile, in his battered safari lorry, driven by an enigmatic plain-elothes polico askuri, the old empire builder travelled to my house tet Nakuru, on the floor of the Ri

Valley. I shall never

be sitting on my bed, collag my. Captain with a cold, a Sergeant all the greater.

General now without

ham or bacon in

il

-

But à General with a cold is

171 single

3

Long safari

WHEN he arrived he had not

caten for 80 hours, and had had no sleep for four days. At my house he oto and slept, and I repaid the debt for the adven- fures he wrote for the book-

I shall never see a General shelves of my childhood. now without mentally stripping

# Therefore the shock to me is a decline in private pig

grapes at a gulp and drinking with a cold, or a Private with u occ keeping because there

my medicine.

cold.'

remembering that a little germ ONE is justifled in beileving

too small to be seen even by the that the effort made by the are adequate supplies of

Moreover I would make a Chinese to

Latest scientific instruments can Civilians with colds его по Improve the lot of pork and bacon reminds

complete fool of the pig and

dawn that splendid their prisoners-and there is no me that I once thought of myself too. I would never cat

common that they are accepted as strike doubt that they did irake such keeping a pig.

normal part of English life, gleaming gure its presence an effort--was not entirely for humanitarian reasons.

But when I made the suggest and would apologise to It for like women in funny hots, and night,

got no sympathy from anybody. It was in accordance

that I once eating pigno head. reminded with ion I their "enient polley." the policy would never kill the pig or have

It was suggested I would give governing the treatment of pri- it killed because I would grow it a bath once a week, powder a different matter. soners and this had a definite too fond of it. political motive.

As a matter of fact I think it like a baby and spray it with perfume to make is presence The technique appears to pigs are full of charm. on endeavour

I don't think they are parti- more bearabic, to Impress the

In fact (the family victim by the "leniency with cularly ugly, at least not after

sald) To one like myself who has which he is treated, in the hope studying photographs of smart instead of relieving the acute stood so often in rigid ranks that he will the more readily weddings.

I like their round,

on I shall forget adventuro at last food altuntion of the period the waiting for a General to inspect From now Amlabic absorb the teachings.

his colourful faces, and

often been plg would live for a long, long mo and make personal remarks him in The argument

supporting this enchanted by those quicic, half-me and be the only pig in the about my unsmart appearance, parade and think of him only as

And Kabogo, the Anest col- is that we (the prisoners),

Generals have always boen a crumpled, grey-haired, red- lector in Africa? Kabogo scaled awesome, godlike creatures eyed having taken part in what was roguish, half-crafty glances they world to die of old age.

thing muffling in an

fence the high, barbed-wire tormed

unjust war of

untidy bed full of hot Wero aggression,

thus

bottles, crumbs and lost hand-round the police compound at Nyeri und escaped--to what? criminals; but under tho "lenlent policy

To the wild country with which

inken

of the fact that we hat Deon deceived by our Capitnilet Government, that we were only tools of the "warmongers," and thus might be re-educated.

I was told It would soon be Fortunately, although perhaps clattering, after me wherever 1 sabroly owing to fear of the went,

En

account

have

give you during a short paupe

in their non-stop banquets,

I was told that before a week

was

was out a pig would be an THE General has a cold. house honoured guest in our

· A sentence in

him of his polished boots and Then he set all again on glittering gongs and dressing another long safari to a· secret him in a pair of warm flunnel destination. He was escorted pyjamas.

by a police officer - and I thought he looked tired, 02

above the comman mortals.

Bilments of

kerchiefs.

moment it has,

me that a

glory on

water

Up to this a news

If I had realised this in the he is so familiar, or to the Mau and b constant Areside com- item which branded itself on nover occurred to

my brain was: The General General could have a cold. Arat war to end, wars my juices Mau? panion.

I have often thought would not have was unable to attend owing to though

wobbled so that in a moment of extremno much at feverish cold,

the approach, of a rage at the sight of slovenly General.

they might havo

=={London Express" Kerolor)

For many redmous a General privates with a cold seems an object for apoplexy..

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The boy with visions? I do not suppose that I shall Ever meet him. I would like to Just once,