Word: mau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marealle, the tall, cheerful king of 300,000 Chagga tribesmen, was one of the first to recognize that Kenya's Mau Mau terrorists were spilling over the border into Tanganyika Territory. Last week one of Tom's ebony tribesmen had seen something moving among his coffee trees and, thinking it was a mere lion, he had charged it with his spear. Instead of a lion, a lion-man sprang out and pointed a pistol at the charging Chagga. The pistol misfired, and the Chagga's spear drove through a Mau Mau terrorist, whose hair was plastered with...
Pursuit by Posse. To Tanganyika's able governor, Sir Edward Twining, 54, the news came as no surprise. Last fall, when Mau Mau "missionaries" began administering their bloodcurdling oaths to the Kikuyu tribesmen who live on the border of Kenya and Tanganyika, Twining's police rounded up 6,500 suspects and packed them off to detention camps. The Mau Mau vowed revenge, and last week's invasion was their way of getting...
...lion-men got more than they bargained for. Tanganyika's Africans (who own all but i% of the land in the territory) oppose the Mau Mau. King Marealle's warning roused the coffee farmers, black and white alike; they quickly formed a posse, which was soon reinforced by a contingent of Masai nomads who came up from their grazing grounds among the salt lakes and craters of the Great Rift Valley. Posse and terrorists met head-on near Arusha...
...Chagga did most of the fighting, and the Mau Mau ran away, leaving rifles, pistols and five prisoners behind. After them went the Masai. They caught one terrorist on a bus bound for Kenya; he had cut off his lion mane, but the telltale scars of Mau Mau oathtaking could plainly be seen on his arms...
...Near Mombasa (pop. 85,000), chief town in the steamy coastal plain, a gang of blood-smeared Negroes buried the remains of two mutilated sheep, then crept back to their huts after taking the Mau Mau oath: "I swear to kill a white man, or may this oath kill me!" One of the oath-takers was a 31-year-old Negro servant, well known for his loyalty to Mrs. Eileen Ennis, one of Mombasa's 2,000 whites. He returned to the Ennis household with two panga knives, slashed Mrs. Ennis and stabbed her sleeping daughter. When the police...