TERRORISM IN KENYA
TEACHER KILLED BY MAU MAU GANG NAIROBI. February 15. A Kikuyu schoolteacher was hacked to death by 20 Mau Mau terrorists at his home today. The terrorists also raided the nearby house of a Kikuyu Anglican clergyman. and seriously wounded him. They also slashed two Kikuyu women. Mr B. Spicle. a European, caught single-handed, three Kikuvu in another gang in the Nyeri district. All were armed with spears and knives and one had a pistol. A man, believed to have been a Mau Mau oath administrator, was shot while trying to escape from the police in the North Kingangop. A police patrol and forest guards attacked a gang in the forest, killing one and scattering the rest. Snow in Algeria.— Heavy snow blanketed the suburbs of Oran today for the first time in 30 years. Snow ploughs were called out to clear roads in the Atlas Mbuntains.—Algiers. February 15.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26967, 17 February 1953, Page 9
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