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...uplands of Kenya last week, Mau Mau bands emerged from hiding and struck hard at the noose of steel that British security forces are painfully tightening around them. Sixty terrorists poured 500 rounds of Sten-gun and rifle fire into one isolated farmstead, but a brave settler and his wife drove them off with a single rifle. Others attacked the home of 93-year-old Margaret Mallet, Kenya's oldest European woman, but were driven off by loyal Africans...
...forest north of Nairobi, a gang of Mau Mau terrorists struck at an African village, captured a Kikuyu tribesman known to be loyal to the British, and chopped off his head. Round their wrists the terrorists wore bangles of human skin, stripped from the flesh of earlier victims. Their commander in chief, scar-faced "General" Dedan Kimathi, had offered them $7 for every dead Kikuyu, $16.80 for every dead Briton...
...catch the terrorists, a patrol of the famed Black Watch cornered 60 of them in a wood near the village of Thika. The Scots set fire to the wood, and in the glare of burning trees, their armored cars raked the area with heavy machine-gun fire. The Mau Mau fired back, and in the very first volley, brought down the patrol leader with a homemade rifle. A veteran of Burma, he bore a soldierly name: Major Archibald John Arthur Wavell, only son of the late Field Marshal Earl Wavell...
Killed in Action. Archibald John Arthur Wavell, 37, second Earl Wavell, major in the Black Watch Regiment and only son of Britain's famed Field Marshal Earl Wavell; while leading a patrol against Mau Mau terrorists; near Thika, Kenya (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Hands Tied. Shocked by Lyttelton's disclosure that in the last eleven months 2,821 Mau Mau-and Mau Mau "suspects"-have been killed and only 980 captured, the Socialists last week condemned Whitehall's "Shoot to kill" order against the terrorists. Ex-Grenadier Guardsman Lyttelton repulsed them in character: "I am not yet prepared . . . to allow British soldiers in these forest areas to . . . fight entirely with their hands tied behind their backs...