NEW HOPE SEEN IN KENYA

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27065, 13 June 1953, Page 2

NEW HOPE SEEN IN KENYA

AFRICANS “COMING TO OUR SIDE” (N Z Press Association — Copyright) LONDON, June 11. The Colonial Secretary (Mr Oliver Lyttelton) said today that the African population in Kenya, where the antiwhite Mau Mau terrorists have caused unrest since last October, were coming over to our side in large numbers. The position was still one of danger, but it was improving, he told the House of Commons. Reporting on the visit he made to Kenya last month, Mr Lyttelton said that increasing numbers of the Kikuyu tribe, from which the Mau Mau gets its recruits, were coming on to the side of the Government and were expressing their confidence in it. The flow of information from the Kikuyu to the police had increased, and the Kikuyu Home Guard, made up largely of Africans, was building up rapidly. LOOTING BY U.S. POLICEMEN THEFTS FROM HOME IN TORNADO AREA

(Rec. 10.30 p.m.) NEW YORK. June 11. Three Detroit policemen were arrested today on charges of looting a tornado-smashed home in the Beecher district, outside Flint, Michigan, last Tuesday. It was the first report of looting from the area, where a tornado twisted and smashed hundreds of homes and killed 106 persons on Monday night. A police superintendent said the officers confessed to stealing shirts, underwear and an inexpensive camera. They resigned, from the police force after they confessed, and were turned over to the State police for prosecucution. In Worcester, Massachusetts, six men were arrested tonight for looting wrecked homes.

BRITONS’ MORAL SENSE

Home Secretary Talks Of Crime Gauses LONDON, June 12. The moral sense of the ordinary British citizen is worrying the Home Secretary (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe), who for the last 18 months has been trying to find the causes of crime. Speaking in Wales he said: “Although there is a shortage of police in our great cities, I am convinced that a great deal of the increase in crime is due to lowering of our moral standards, unsatisfactory homes and the fact that religion is no longer a practical sanction in daily life.” A great danger in Britain was the attitude of mind: “Why should anyone have more than I?” This opened the door to envy ahd meanness of spirit, qualities which just could not be afforded.