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...last week China had written 26 "surrender" letters to Mau Mau chieftains, including "General Cargo," who operates north of Nairobi, and scar-faced Dedan Kimathi, alias Field Marshal Russia. The letters were delivered by armored cars to jungle letter boxes in hollow trees and to Mau Mau couriers waiting in forest clearings. China's plea: "Further violence will only bring greater suffering. Those who fight on now are criminal fanatics...
...British offer. "We fear there is a wildcat in the bag," said one whom China interviewed. But at week's end, ten favorable replies had been received, and there were two important surrenders: "General Tanganyika," China's former second in command, and "General Katanga." Field Marshal Russia also replied-but in a taunting letter sent not to General China but to British District Officer John Candler. "Soon you die," the note said. Shortly afterwards, Candler drove into the forest and ran smack into Russia's ambush. His body was buried this week in Nairobi's cemetery...
There Is No Defense. Such plain speak ing in Britain is most unfashionable. It represents a considerable victory, won in disregard of popular British opinion, for a group of professional strategists led by a famed airman: Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Cotesworth Slessor...
...Control began in the '203, when Slessor and the R.A.F.'s Air Marshal Sir Arthur ("Bomber") Harris used it to subdue rebellious Arab tribes in Mesopotamia. The rebels got fair warning: cease raiding and lay down your arms, or your villages will be destroyed. Those who took no notice were bombed...
...There are grave risks about this," the Marshal of the R.A.F. concluded. "But terrible perils are implicit in the situation I am discussing...