SURRENDER OF MAU MAU
LEADERS OF BOTH SIDES TO MEET
NAIROBI, March 18. A forest meeting between Army and Government officers and the Mau Mau leaders to arrange details of a mass surrender of the terrorist gangs may be arranged within a matter of days. Of the 26 Mau Mau leaders 19 have communicated, through letters and couriers, with the captured “General China,” a senior official said today- Most were favourable to the former terrorist leader’s plea that they should surrender with their arms. “General China,” once the Mau Mau’s No. 2 field commander, has been in -touch with the other terrorist leaders since February 14, when he was secretly taken from the condemned , cell in Nairobi and flown to where' ha has been arranging
meetings through special branch officers with the gang leaders in the forest.
Light spotter aeroplanes, fitted with powerful “loud-hailer” equipment, are making five flights weekly over the worst Mau Mau areas and hide-outs, out of reach of the ground troops. The terrorists hear a Kikuyu voice booming: “Your war is finished. You ■can’t fight .without guna.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27303, 20 March 1954, Page 7
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