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THE WHITE | HIGHLANDS)

KENYA

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SCOWLING White

Highlands farmer Jim Hughes, who looks 40 but is 63, was not wearing his normal com- plement of two ivory- handled 45's in shoulder holsters when I saw him the other. day, Which

was just as well, because he was in an angry mood over the Kenya Government's plan open up the land around

African him to

to

and

Was

THE CHINA MAIL," "THURSDAY, NOVEMBER ̈‍5, 1959.

Trouble in 'Paradise' for

farmer Jim

From DONALD WISE

Reporter-on-the-spot report on reactions to the plan to throw open to Africans the White Highlands of Konya—the exclu sively European Farming area,

NAIROBI-

of

as Under-Secretary State for the Colonies.

It is a long time ago now, but for Jim Hughes and his farmer friends the changing world around them is one thing and a Churchill pledge is another. They dug in on those pledges.

the Hughes fo

most Kenya vociferous of European xet

I Gers. "Trouble with Jim.**

told, "Is that he wants to shoot everybody.” "Nonsense," he roared to me, at 9,000 pounding the dark wood table. Be farms 503 acres

to live in peace with feel on the lush southern stopes "I want

Asian farmers.

of Mount Kinangop, 00 miles the Africans, but if they come northwest of Nairobi; acres that into

now

contain

il

our

Greas

white-tipped happen? pyrethrum, Ane cattle, and meat tile stone house with 21

the wisp of smoke eating up chimney from a sweet-smelling wood fre

Jim Hughes arrived in the White Highlands 30 years ago with £20 in his pocket after service in the Indian Army.

He clawed his little paradise out of the scrub which covered the land, beating off the elephant And rhino that did their

best

to treat him and his efforts into the ground.

Its methods with his labour force are feudal; and like mos other farmers he pensions them off and looks after them when they are sick.

he

Unlike his neighbours,

had an incident on his nover farm during the evit days of Mau Mau, which has led him to believe that his rough-and-rendy method of dealing with thieves has a more profound effect then the local curt of law at the side of Lake Naivasha some 2,000 feet below him.

"They

what

'Pledge'

boundaries,

will

our will thieve over

their cattle and diseased wil crops

become beatise thetr

standards of celency are lower than ours.

"So my cattle and crops will become infected too. The value

of my land will drop. I came here under a pledge and it is up to the British Government to keep that pledge."

The point is now are they bar. going to tise, therri ricades and fight off the Government even At gun- Point?

I feel that if the Government bought them out ai u fair price the majority would pull out. There is no doubt that that

like what African Nationalists Tom Mboya want.

In debt

Is

He is against the new White Highlands plan because he feels that having bought out the farmers the Government should He was referring to Colonial also hand over their lund to Secretary Lord Elgin, who

50 Africans on the never-ever White basic. years ago said that the Highlands should be granted

Indians do not like it either. unly to European settlers,

Later Sir Winston Churchill "I buy a farm the very fact was reported to have said: "We that I get it will bring the price by down and I shall never recover Wo are pledged consider undertakings given in the past my initial expenditure," one told to reserve the highlands of Easi Africa exclusively for European settlers

and we do not intend to depart from that pledge."

That was in 1922, years after Churchill's visit to

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me.

Added to that, both Euro

dislike Africans peans and Asians, to whom many are in debt, and neither want to see then get the good land.

To ente peething puitlera. Kenya Minister of Lands, Will Mathieson, has announced again that African land reserves will be opened to Europeans. But there are two anagɔ here.

ONE: The African Lands Trust Board must approve the transaction unanimously.

TWO: Almost no title deeds exist to African holdings.

The White Highlands, twice Wales the size of

and one

quarter the size African-held land units. la farmed by 3,000 European farmers who produce three-quarters of the Colony's wealth.

Protests

and animal

DAY TRIP-BY :: JAK

R.M. BOULOGNE BOMB.

"Pity the 'undred pound limit's off, Bert. Now we'll have to go back on Friday for the wives."

Russian tank on Moon

The Kenya Government has that all sorts et emphasised conditions good-farmer qualif-

Inbour force control. THE latest evidence of cations,

Soviet strength in criminal records,

be taken disease-will

into rocketry is a very severe account before Inter-racial land transfers are approved.

warning to those who Whether or

think the West not the settlers still will resist the Government's could "mix it" success- new measure physically may

the temper fully with Russia in well be decided by of protest meetings in all the showdown. farming centres these few weeks. During the last several days' motoring round the rich White Highlands I have detected hole of apathy. My guess that no one will fight the issue at gunpoint,

a

is

Nor do I imagine that many

of Jim Hughes's friends will on. 10 welcome African neighbours. stay

But when they do pull out of Kenya do not expect them back in Britain.

In their present mood they would rather farm In Siberin.

London Express Service).

а

If the Russians are success- ful in placing the new cosmic rocket in a loop that takes in moon and earth, they will have little difficulty in hitting what ever they wish on earth when ever they wish to hit it.

When the President of the Academy of Sciences Soviet announced this spring that the current Soviet seven-year plan. due for completion by 1906, in cludes the exploration of the

zurface moon's

fool on

by Russian astronauts few people took it seriously,

By ANGELA CROOME

Now we must do so. There is no doubt the Soviet space target Is intended

quite literally and will probably be achieved.

Easy mastery

3. The fact that the rocket has

eban-

done something a stage more ambitious than the attempt the Americans have had to don recently.

This is "Operation Farside,"

photograph the plan.

the Three things make the latest

moon's hidden side during a Russian cosmic rocket extremely single rocket pass. The Atlas

of indicalive

for combination

the U.S. impressive

last month attempt due Soviet advances in technology.

and

test.

1. The fact that it has taken. place within

a month of the ploded disastrously on Russian success in hitting the moun

Strong hint

2. The casy mastery with

Now the whole U.S. which the Russians have timed

programme with date of probe this to coincide the launching of the first space rehashed vehicle in history, Sputnik I, two current

abandoned. years ago precisely.

Is once ogain contracts are

X-

(London Express Service).

soon?

All in all, hints from Russian that the Soviet space experts

Union

may

tanding on

make

A "dot" the moon before Christmas look genuine.

A strong hint was given me of this plan by a well-informed Russian source a few days after the September Lunik.

This plan is for a robot tank- like vehicle to be placed gently. on the moon's surface to make

uf measurements the lunar environment and radio

them back to earth.

An extended exploration by such vehicles is a necessary pre- liminary to a landing by men on ground the moon. The robot researchers must fest the nature of the surface. the range of tempera- ture there, and innumerable other factors vital for planning man's space survival on this dead world. being We may expect some such the moon and robot (Russian) being before many months are out.

-(London Express Service).

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