THE HONGKONG- TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1951.
US Steel Output Equals That Of Europe And Russia
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Geneva, Mar. 26.
The United States produced as much steel in 1950 as all of Europe, including the Soviet Union, combined, according to estimates of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), The Commission said in its quarterly survey that the total 1950 steel output of western and eastern Europe was between 84,780,000 and 88,280,- 000 metric tons.
محارب
Steel production in the United States in 1950: totalled 87,723,000 metrie tons, but last year the United States turned out steel at an annual rate of 91,064,000 metric tons.
According to the ECB survey, European steel production out- side Russia totalled an estimated 60,680,000 metric tons last year.
This is 10 per cent more than production in 1949. V s
The Commission estimed on the basis of Russian statistics that steel output in the Soviet -Union for 1950 varied from 24,100,000 tons to 27,600,000 tons. United Press.
Secret Society Is A Menace To Kenya
NAIROBI.
By Dudley Hawkins
The meetings and initiation dresses, white shirts and black
10 p.m. and 2 a.m. pitch.
which has
LETING in secret glades ceremonies are held at night. lies, cars parked on the edge of
in the depths of Kenya's between
generally Saturday night the carefully tended cricket highland forests, members on Sunday morning. Highly That is the new Africa, an of a fanatical native society organised staff work and strate-Africa are planning the eviction of gically placed look-outs make all Europeans from
these meetings really secret. Colony
the They have to be, for they are horrible. The main ingredients are the heart of a newly killed fam, a bowl of fresh blood and the number "seven."
Seated round flickering fires, dressed in tribal finery of ostrich feathers and monkey skins and fegir, faces bedaubed with lime, native of the Kikuyu tribe are
Seven is the "number of death" among the Kikuyu tribes
brought prosperity to the Rift Valley, and education and medical at- tention to the natives.
As the ceremony continues a banana-leaf cup of sheep's blood is passed round. Seven sips are taken from it. The oath is complete. No one dares break it. The society have secured
BIG BREAK Breaching a gospel of sabotage men. They believe that to break another recruit.
IN COTTON
MARKET
New York, Mar. 20. New crop cattfin futures to- day slumped almost $4 a bale in the sharpest speak singe was resumed a little trading SATELLITE OUTPUT
more than two weeks ago. Bulls retreated in some disorder Geneva, Mar. 20,
after a shaky. start.. Nearby The Western countries pro- July delivery went under 45 duced 199,670,000 tons of crude.
39, steel
the ceiling price, for the in. 1950 compared with first time in the week. 32,288,000 tons
That Union and her five steel pro- event
psychological ducing allies, according to the factor was the dislodgement of reaction. Another significant quarterly Bulletin of the United few more offerings in May de- Nations Economic Commission for Europe published here today. live at the limit price
Of
by the Soviet
the, Western total the United States produced 87,723,000 tons and West Europe 51,947,000
tons.
production for
000 tons.
had
and insurrection, swearing pagan oday they drink the blood of "sacrificed rams..
They are members of the Mau Mau Society and they are not Just a story-book legend. They are a real and serious menace not only to the British farmers who have made their homes on the healthy central plateau lands of Kenya, but to the whole agricultural well-being of the Colony by stirring up trouble among native labourers.
Over a hundred of them have already been brought to book by special squads of police and are serving long prison sen- tones any of their "cells" have been broken up. But for cach, man that goes to prison, others come each cell" that is liquidated, place.
to take their
ཝཱ
==
the
an oath sworn in conjunction with
number seven Cantamount to signing one's own death warrant.
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is And then in strange anti- climax the initiation fee is handed over. It is often as much In addition, of course, is the as £4, more often £3, and that initiate, willing or unwilling. is a lot of money to a man whose Master of ceremonies is the monthly cash wage is probably
high priest," the local
cell 16/-. leader, and the high-light of
"We do not know where that the meeting is the oath binding money goes to," says Mr Car- the initiate to do all in his penter. We do know that often power to turn the Europeans unwilling natives are made out of Kenya, to make life un-members of the society so that pleasant for them, to destroy the local cell funds can benefit. their crops and damage their But the number seven is a machinery,
potent force with the Kikuyus, and it is a brave man who will. come to the police and tell them that he has been forced against his will to join the society."
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الله
.on-
A sheep's heart is held up by the high priest. From it the initiate has to take seven bites, Swaying in unison, the lookers, already fully fledged members of the Society, chant with monotonous and insistent fervour, "Mau mau, mau mau,
mau mau
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Bearish factors included hopes
"There's no sense in attempt-1 week-end rains In for an early trude în Korea, ing to deny that the Mau Mau
the Rio are a problem," Mr F. Carpen- losing itself in the thick forest The smoke rises from the fire, Grande Valley of Texas which ter, Kenya's Labour Commis- canopy of leaves. Black bodies The Soviet Union's steel fare
expected to be especially sioner, told me at his Nairobi glisten with sweat, eyes shine beneficial for the new crop and H.Q. "We are more than keeping unnaturally with pagan fervour, 1950 was esti-multiplying signs of slackening mated by Commission officials at in civilian demand for cotton hting them with all the force coughs. This is the old Africa, Watch on them, We are perhaps in the distance a leopard 24,100,000 tons and the combined. production of
fabrics, Czechoslovakia.pparel
Extremists
at our command.” out that the urgent. pointed Eastern
the Africa of rite and ritual. Germany, Hungary,
military buying also might
The Mau Mau are pagans -Down in the valley there may Poland and Rumania at 8,188, abate if the international poli- using the age-old. superstitions be a dance at the farmers' club, tical tension should easel:. of Africa to secure the loyalty the gramophone thumping out The price control picture of their members. They are all African songs set to a transatlan- Washington also. appears more members of the Kikuyu tribe, the rhythm. of a two-sided affair. While which is probably the most the formidable cotton farm, bloc
#resternised and sophisticated Their reserve was always fighting to free cot.tribe in Kenya, 2,510,000 tons according to the ton from controls, some officials lies among the fertile wooded reported. clamour for tougher controls. over farm prices.
Prices closed today as follows: 46.06 nominál 45.36 40.76-40.70 bia 40.27-40.29 40.12 nominat
The largest producers among the Communist satellite coun- tries for 1950 were Czecho-
with an slovakia
estimated 2,943,000 tons and Poland with
Bulletin.-Reuter,
Grain Prices
In Chicago
Chicago, Mar. 26. Prices of grain futures closed
here today as follows:
Wheat-price per bushel
Spot
May.
July
September-
December
Corn
-Spot
Spot May
Jy
October
December.
March (1952)
May
July
40.92 39.45
United Press, -
NEW ORLEANS MARKET
2.40
Spot
2.4614-3
! May
2.437% 2.4494-2.45 2.48%
1.79%
July
October
December
March (1952)
May
July
1.77-8 1.792-6
May July
September
1.77%
December
1.6834-12
Rye
May
July
Oats
May
July.
1.8634 1.8534-7
87%-78 New York Flour per 200 sack. $13.10.-United Press.
New York Sugar Futures
New York, Mar. 26. World sugar.
futures closed today unchanged to 3 points lower, with sales totalling 7
Closing rate
March 26.
44.91 .45.30
hills rising green and fresh from the semi-desert of the plains that lie between Nairobi and the Indian Ocean.
They are agriculturists. living. in new-found protection and prosperity under British rule; for before the white man came to settle and administer Kenya half- a century ago the Kikuyu lived infear of the lion-hunting Masai warriors whose territory bor- dered theifs
From their reserve they supply 45.30 bid Nairobi with fresh vegetables 40.72 at no little profit to themselves, and by native standards they are the plutocrats of East Africa, But prosperity and security bave made the Kikuyu the most politically unreliable of all the tribes.
40.20 '40.06 bid 39.88, bid 39.54 bid
-United Press.
Pepper Market Marks Time
No one knows how the present society began, What is known, however, is that its adherents are young men between the ages of eighteen and thirty, and that in less than a year it has spread over 10,000 square miles of
citrat Kenya.
New York, Mar. 26. Holiday conditions continued in the black pepper market. Traders marked time, awaiting further news from India along with Korean and price control "The fundamental basis of the developments. One dealer de-society," says Mr Carpenter, "is scribed the situation by saying national." The Mau Mau say that the market grows hot and in effect, The British have no cold daily. Spot material was.kaight. to live here. This is our quoted at between $1,56 1:58. land; the European must go." 5 pound, March shipment, at But the Rift Valley area 1.57, April and. May at 1.56 where they have established June at 1.55, July at 1.54 and secret cells never was Kikuyu
contracts.
Contract No. 6 closed today 1 to 2 lower, with sales totalling August 1.53 a pound, all on an Prices closed today "as ex-dock basis. -United Press.
45 contracts.
follows:-
5.49 bid
5.50.
Contract No. 4- (world)
May
5.47 bid
July
5.49 bid
September
Spot
Contract No
May
July
5.51 bid
September
Spot
535
5.39 bid
territory. It belonged to the
Masai."
ABLE SEAMAN
There are pretty
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On the farms the old natives. view the Mau Mau without enthusiasm.
They know that the eviction of the Europeans
can cause
nothing but harm. They know, too, the speciousness They know that the land they of the young men's arguments.. now live on never belonged to
them.
ly loyal," I was told, "and as "These old chaps are intense-
age is respected in Africa, they have done much to curb a lot of young men, who would other- wise have joined the Mau Mau."
And the farmers themselves?. Whatever is said or written about Kenya, every farmer- thinks his boys are the grandest bunch of natives that ever
STANDARD BRIDGE were. He never suspects that
By M. Harrison-Gray Dealer South
Game all
N.
AJ 5
A 10 9 8 3
6 2
4996
K 9 7 4
$ Q 8 6 5
W.
6 2
9 3
Q 2
10 4 3
AK 754
08 65 & A.J9
AJ 10 3 K 7 2
The bidding of this hand from match play started in both rooms with One Heart
Two No-Trumps - Three Diamonds. The first North made the common error of calling Three No-Trumps, East which South passed. led 2 to Dummy's Ki West playing ♣ 10. A low Heart was led to North's
J. and East's Q. West's play at trick 1 has denied .possession of J. so East shifted to 10 which ran When Lo North's Q Hearts failed *to break. North guessed wrong with the Diamond finesse and
ended up one down.
In Room 2 North went to the other extreme with an exagerated turn to Five Diamonds on the second round. South bid Six and also went one down in this ambitious contract, although there are ways and means of making 12 tricks.
London Express Service.
some of them belong to the Mau Mau and are plotting his eviction.
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But that is Africa-trust and
mistrust, modern witch doctor's
surgery and incantations,
wireless and the bush telegraph, progress and retrogression.
For Africa is still young and untamed, and the men who are helping her to grow up have many problems. The Mau Mau is another burden,
JEST A MINUTE ! By GEOFFREY EVANS
COST OF
RATTRESSES
UP
TAT
Oi, Dad! Mum says you can't
afford to be there now the cost of sleeping has gone up!"
By Holt
5,59 bid
United Press.
Copra Offers
New York, Mar. 26: Copra was offered at $3801 per ton, C.IF the Pacific Coast and cocoanut oil was quoted at 21 cents asked. F.O.B. mills. No business was reported - United Press,
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