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pon't Miss the ROUND-UP .-rnRDSVHXE, UKfc. Sun., Juy 3 & 4 Soldiers, Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Wed., June 23, 1954 7B Guns And Courts itqn LANE PARK Fighting Grim Mau Mau War "l,;,ih of J BgBKi city g Editor's Note: for more than a wear Mail Man terrorists linns of junction City stalked (lie ricli British East stjncan catonv oj Kenya, Tic Man Afm limits and murders both blacks and whites. The British are working toward a long-range solution, but it will take time. In the meantime, here's an intimate glimpse of how British justice is meeting terror in Kenya, For t Superb straits Delirious chicken L'nrxcelled Seafoods IV A RKI.AXING ATMOSPHERE Al Famlly-PurM rues nEi- nev 115 Willamette Park sido Cocktail nil I IC Now Playing 4 HDD IE COLE 3 Loose Nuts & A Bolt Plus r.tn?A Valller Songs jimmy Peterson dance By FRED ZUSY Of The Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya CAT) The young man sat in the prisoner's Ibox, his black skin shining with sweat, nis legs shackled in irons. Behind him in the high-paneled courtroom stood two African po licemen armed with rifles, red Iezz.es cocked on their heads. The voices of witnesses droned in the heat like persistent flies, echoed by the voice of the trans lator who added eacli time, "Yes, m'lord," or "No, m'lord" to the wigged and black-robed English judge on the bench. Barefoot native assessors, who act as advisors to the court on questions of 'fact, listened grave ly. The man was Miano, son of Ngemwe. He had been caught up in the reign of terror known as Mau Mau which may someday be a mere footnote in the annals of the British Empire. But. today, in the dense forests THE CASCADE PLAYERS Present THE CRUCIBLE eM-25-26 Jo 8:00 p.m. I, Curtain 8:30 p.m. Tonight Thru Wed. Admission $1.00 Ph. 51511 Ext. 401 "THE MOON IS BLUE" DOORS OPEN AT 12:45 Starts Today and dry uplands of Kenya, it is a life or death struggle between the whites who came to lame the land and the blacks who would arive tnem out. v A patrol of the Kine's A friVnn Rifles black troops with white officers captured Miano on a banana plantation last Feb. 6 as they chased a gang of suspected Mau Mau. From the witness stand a enr. poral and a sergeant testified that Miano raised a home-made rifle to fire at the pursuing troops but dropped it when he saw the cor poral was armed with a stn on xt , . ... o"'" u, protested Miano, when he took the stand. The gun was not "is. ine troops lorced-it on him, Speaking quickly in Swahili, Mi ano said lie was an unwilling captive of the Mau Mau. I have betrayed Mau Matt would be killed bv them." he told the grave judge. "I will point out the medicine man who advises Mau Mau where and wnen to attack." The native assessors looked at Miano thoughtfully. The iurten was silent. wow Miano cried he'd hpon hung from a tree with his wrists bound so that a confession could be wrung from him. ine court and the assessors studied his wrists. They noted marks "of some sort." But there were no marks on his neck, His court-appointed attorney rose anu said that many inno cent Africans were used by Mau Mau as carriers and coolies But the prosecutor cited the damning evidence: Miano and his gang were in a prohibited area when the King's Rifles found them. On a recent evening 'Miano, son of Ngemwe, was marched out to a scaffolding. The hang man's rope was placed around nis neck, me trapdoor was EXCITEMENT EHpljV A COIUMHA PIC1UH W rn L CAKcT KUbbKIA HATNtb M WALLACE FORD JUDY CANOVA "SINGING IN THE CORN" SPECIAL ATTRACTION (Bocky Marciano Vs. Ezzard Charles Official Films World Heavyweight Championship Battls Round Bv Round Blow Bv Blow You Have a Rina-side Seat Don't Miss Iti "li N.E i "n ii. III n First Run Feature Times WEDNESDAY (Subject to change) HEILIG Nebraskan, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15. Singing In the Corn. 3:05. 6:05. 9:05. Marciano-Charles fight, 2:45, 5:45; 8:45, 11:45. mcuonalu Demetrius and the Gladiators, 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 REX Hiding Shotgun, 2:50, 6:30 10:10. Perils of the Jungle, 12:30, 4:10, 7:51). Bugs Bunny revue, 1:35, 5:15 8:55. ' THURSDAY (Subject to change) HEILIG Nebraskan, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:13. Singing In the Corn, 3:05, 6:05, y:u&. Marciano-nanes lignt, 2:43. 5:45 . 8:45. 11:45. MCDONALD Demetrius and the Gladiators, 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00. REX Riding Shotgun, 2:50. 6:30, 10:10. Perils of the Jungle, 12:30, 4:10, 7:50. Bugs Bunny revue, 1:35, 5:15, h:o. sprung. Prescnly Miano was dead. Ho was one of 14 their ages ranging from 24' to 37 hanged between 8 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. that night after being duly tried before justices of the Kenya Su preme Court. . Since Mau Mau erupted in Oc tober, 1952, a total of 390 Kenya blacks have been executed in this fashion. They die for illegal pos session of firearms or ammuni tion, for murder, for consorting with unlawfully armed persons, or for taking part in Mau Mau oath ceremonies. The Mau Mau ritual includes bestiality, cannibalism, such acts as picking out a dead person's eyes and drinking the fluid from the sockets. Mau Mau have killed close to 1,000 Africans, more than 20 Eu ropeans and more than 20 Asians. Crown forces are steadily making inroads in the ranks of the fanat ics, killing about 200 and captur- about 50 every month. Yet still the Mau Mau bathe Kenya in blood, raiding remote ranches and settlements. The most difficult problem of the settlers is the fact that the Mau Mau draws its membership from the Kikuyu, the tribe from which Europeans have drawn most of their farm and domestic workers. Thus Kikuyu, who by day ap pear to be passive workers, al night may be taking part in the ghastly rites and grim activities of Mau Mau. The basic driving force of the Mau Mau is the claim that the land belongs to the Kikuyu not to the whites. The strategy of the Mau Mau leaders is to establish rule by terror over all Africans in Kenya so they will obey Mau Mau rather than the government. These are the things in the minds of the colonists when suspected Mau Mau comes to trial. But British justice runs its slow and careful course in each ease, with natives advising and watching proceedings closely. Miano and the 13 hanged with him, had appealed their cases, but all the appeals were dismissed. Among those hanged was Kar- whom a hut escaped. ttoya, son of Kanyugi, patrol flushed out of Nganda. A companion Members of the patrol testified that Karuoya told them he was "captain Kenya" of the Mau Mau. In the hut they said they found a police-type jersey with three stars on the epaulettes and a bush shirt with an embroidered badge lettered "Kenya." They also said they found a home-made gun of pipe with a crudely carved stock and eight rounds of ammunition. A 16-year-old girl found in the hut was released. Karuoya claim ed he was an innocent villager tending goats nearby when the patrol arrived. Me was sentenced to death. Another hanged was Mbugwa, son of Muchara, who was captur ed in a native hotel room in the Kiambtt district. There police found "bhang," the local mari juana, and other equipment be lieved used in an oath-taking cer emony. They said they also found two rounds of small bore ammunition hidden in a pocket of his under wear when they searched him. Mbugwa claimed he wasn't wear ing any underwear. He was hang ed for possession of ammunition. The English do not expect to ex terminate the Mau Mau out of existence. 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