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...from a bamboo thicket on the slopes of the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya. Armed with shiny pangas, they crept into a Kikuyu village, killed three Kikuyu men and a 14-year-old boy. The victims were Kikuyu guards, loyal to the white men and pledged to fight the Mau Mau...
Such butchery by the Mau Mau, male and female, is fast becoming commonplace in the rich and sorrowful land of Kenya Crown Colony. In the twelve months since Governor Sir Evelyn Baring declared a state of emergency, the Mau Mau has murdered 730 Africans. 16 whites, eleven Indians.* In return. British troops have killed 2,340 Africans in battle; have hanged 89 and jailed 27,000, have 149 of them awaiting execution. The fighting has busied five full battalions of British infantry with supporting troops (6,750 men) and 3,000 African levies; it costs the shuddering colony more than...
...great rolling ranches where the big game roams, Kenya's white settlers have built 30-ft.-tall watchtowers with big searchlights to overlook their cattle camps and the Negro labor lines, which are enclosed with barbed wire. In their teeming reserves, terrified Kikuyu watch in awe while the Mau Mau drill in the open, black foreheads glistening with crosses painted in blood, hoarsely chanting to the gods: "Grant us power to drive out all whites...
...thousand miles south of Nairobi, the fear of spreading Mau Mauism haunts the fertile British Protectorate of Nyasaland. The colony's 4,400 Britons raise bumper crops of tea, tobacco and citrus fruits along the Shire River valley, which drains the 360-mile-long Lake Nyasa (see map). They are outnumbered more than 500-to-one by 2,500,000 Africans, whom they call "niggers" and "coons." Last week...
...little worried by the rumbles, and one Colonial Office man, obviously proud of his talent as a phrasemaker, spoke of "a tempest in a teagarden." But British planters, who have evacuated their women & children to the market town of Blantyre, remember that London once classified Kenya's Mau Mau as a "minor incident...