MAU MAU LEADER SURRENDERS
First Response To Offer NAIROBI, September 16. A self-styled “general” and six other Mau Mau terrorists have surrendered to security forces in Kenya, in the first response to the Government’s surrender offer, proclaimed three weeks ago. Announcing the “general’s” surrender. the army said he was not in the top flight of Mau Mau leadership. He and his companions, who surrendered to a Kikuyu guard post at Gathuti. south of Nyeri, with rifle, primed grenade, and a bag of ammunition, could “more properly be described as lone gangsters who have found things too hot for them.” Five other terrorists, waving green branches, surrendered to a reconnaissance patrol of the Kenya Regiment in South Kinangop, about 50 miles north of Nairobi, last night. They told the patrol that more Mau Maus nearby were waiting to surrender, and sent a messenger to get them.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27148, 18 September 1953, Page 9
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