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...patrol unlimbered its Bren guns and disappeared into the night in the direction of the Jordan border. Soon the men came back with a prisoner. He was an Arab of medium height, and he tried to make himself smaller by pressing his hands against his belly. The Israelis searched him roughly, and one of them thrust the snout of a Tommy gun into his stomach. He made a noise like a wounded animal. Then Tryfus tried to thrust the land mine into the prisoner's hands. The Arab shrank back, and Tryfus laughed grimly. "He knows nothing," mimicked...
...tangled, blue fastness of the Aberdare Mountains, a Mau Mau leader named Simba ("The Lion") wrote last week to a white settler: "I have just returned from a course for brigadiers in Abyssinia, and have under my command one division of 12,000 men, 400 machine guns, 300 Bren guns, 100 Sten guns, 10,000 rifles and 40 mortars . . . I could wipe out 50 battalions . . ." Next day, with a band of hand-picked warriors, he struck hard at the settler's estate...
...band, 150 strong and heavily armed, last week at tacked the trading center of Kanderudu, repulsed a British patrol and seized its transport. The soldiers called for air support, and counterattacked. Result: 40 Mau Mau were killed (ten by an African trooper who kept firing his Bren gun even after one of his fingers had been shot away); the rest broke and fled...
...last week, guerrillas sabotaged the pipeline which carries Tanjong Mal-im's water supply. Codner led a party into the jungle to repair it. They had not gone far when a band of guerrillas sprang from ambush with blazing Bren and Sten guns. When help came, it was too late-twelve of the repair party were dead. One of them was Richard Michael Clinton Codner, who had been wounded by machine gun fire, tried to crawl to cover, and was shot dead beneath a bush...
Elsewhere the authorities found other caches: under an electric crane in Turin's Fiat steel mill, 29 light machine guns and other arms; in a field near the Milan railway line, three Sten and five Bren guns, 80 grenades, etc.; in a zinc coffin buried under the sports field of an auto plant near Milan, one mortar, one small antiaircraft gun, three Bren guns...