KENYA DOES ITS BIT!

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 169, 19 July 1941, Page 11

KENYA DOES ITS BIT!

JHERE are few more impressive records of "war effort" than that furnished by Kenya Colony. Forty-seven per cent of the settlers over I 8 and under 80 are in uniform. One African, even, threatened to hang himself if they couldn't find a place for him in the King's African Rifles! Kenya Colony includes approximately 21.000 residents of European extraction. 11.000 Arabs. 40 000 Indians and ".00.000 Africans Thereare. also, a number of South Africans. "some rather scared Italians and between 14.000 and 17.000 elephants." All are doing their bit. Here is a summary of part of the c«>lony's contribution:— Some of the African tribes have bought their own Spitfires, which are helping 10 defend "Kim: George's house." The railway has given £500.000 worth of free transport for militarv traffic to help the Government. Old Africans, with hardly a shilling in the world, have walked in as much as ■',() miles to give their few cents to the vVar Fund.

Native broad' a-' - arc uiven in four African languages. Every day 300 <atti«- complete a month's n.arch Iron, Tanganyika under the t.ue of native herd boy-, and art- converted into bully beef by the I,it-b;u's factory near Nairobi at the rale of ]]u ims per beast. Women Farmers Carry On i-or.e white women are aciine a.group farmers and are running, with only African assistance. so;v.etimcs as many as Jive farms ;ns to men who have joined v.)). Eighteen hundred Africans and n white men are running four i which between them s':pi • a gre.it proportion of The boot-', iilanln bully beef, sandbags, iand o'.i<: items used by the K«-nya i- •ce.-. South African pilots have ■. . •_ least three times a- f-ir ov< - ! ;. i East Africa as It.dia'.- •• have flown over Briii-h Ea.-t Af: a. The Masai trib-- to whu... ca"'-? are currency and* cash is much, have agreed to -o'l IROO head of cattle a ir.« •• ti.e < nment —and hav tit- to make a sift • on «>a«:h braid smJu as a i: \:.o War Chest.