SECURITY DRIVE IN KENYA

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27425, 11 August 1954, Page 11

SECURITY DRIVE IN KENYA

Sweeping Search Of Nairobi (Rec, 8 p.m.) NAIROBI, August 10. Security forces arrested 217 Kikuyu, Embu and Meru tribesmen in Nairobi today, in a building-to-building sweep through the city by 2000 troops and police. Sixteen persons, including a European, have been charged with harbouring suspected Mau Mau terrorists. The sweeping search of the city is a third phase of last April’s “Operation Anvil,” which resulted in the eviction of about half the city’s African population.

A gang burned down a school building and slashed five loyal Africans on a location near Meru, north-east of Mount Kenya. In the same reserve terrorists killed a Meru guard, A pistol and 30 rounds were recovered when security forces wiped out a gang of four in a Nyeri location. Kenya security forces killed 32 Mau Mau terrorists in the last 24 hours, an official communique states. One patrol of the King’s African Rifles alone accounted for 12 of them. Last week 84 Mau Mau were killed and nine wounded and captured. About 520 suspects were held, the communique states. In the same week the security forces lost four Africans killed and five wounded. Eleven loyal African civilians were killed and one other wounded.