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...more to 261 lbs. by early August. For the second time Mrs. Kane began to take tucks in his uniform, and Peter noticed a big difference in his life: "Before, I used to sit around and give orders. I'd tell the kids, move a chair here, and mow the lawn, and feed the chickens. Now I get up and do it myself...
...like them to attack in large numbers because then we can mow them down," said Major General William Hinde, director of military operations in Kenya. With Lyttelton's approval, he ordered 10,000 Kikuyu Home Guardsmen, recruited to defend their homes, to be armed with shotguns. Yet as Lyttelton plainly saw, stamping out the Mau Mau would require more than shotguns. The problem, as in Malaya, is to assure the majority of natives of the government's concern for their welfare, and to protect them against the Mau Mau. Snapped General Sir Cameron Nicholson: "We need a great...
...palmy Cuernavaca, resort town about 35 miles south of Mexico City, Mow bought a big house and hired four servants. A fortnight ago he rode in his Cadillac to Cuernavaca's cobbled shopping section to buy a straw hat. As he stepped out of the car door, five men grabbed him, flicked out police badges, whisked him back to his house. There they also arrested a slim, trim, two-toned blonde named Agnes Kelly, 31, who became Mow's secretary after giving up nightclub appearances and modeling in New York. While Mow fumed, the gumshoes searched his house...
...Mow was arrested because the Chinese embassy in Mexico had demanded his extradition to Formosa on charges of embezzling at least $5,000,000. It was reported that Mow had a sizable part of the missing millions in Mexico. His local attorney said that Mow would hand the money over to the United Nations or the Mexican government if he could be sure it would be returned to the Chinese people "instead of the pockets of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek." Once Mow was in custody, however, Attorney General Luis Felipe Canudas decided that Mexico had a couple of scores...
...week's end Secretary Kelly was freed for lack of evidence tying her to the charges against Mow. Moved to the federal penitentiary, Mow will have to await the government's next move...