BOMB ATTACKS ON MAU MAU
FOUR LINCOLNS TO BE USED NAIROBI, November 17. Lincoln bombers will be used against
General Erskine’s announced today that heavy pattern bombing of the prohibited areas of the Aberdare and Mount Kenya forests is planned to smash a hard core of Mau Mau gangs who continue to defy thousands of British and African troops.
The announcement said four Lincoln bombers have arrived in the colony from Aden and will begin dropping heavy bombs almost immediately on the thick forests and jungles clothing the two mountain areas. A new emergency regulation issued today provides the death penalty for acts of sabotage designed or likely to endanger life. For other acts of sabotage, the regulation provides for a maximum sentence of 14 years and a fine of £lOOO. Intending saboteurs may be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27201, 19 November 1953, Page 11
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