Okemah Daily Leader (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 158, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 12, 1953 Page: 3 of 6
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JULY 1953
THE OKEISAH (OE:LA) DAILY LEADER
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-KOYA'S MAU MAU ARE MAKING OWN GUNS 001 OF WIRING BAMBOO STALKS
Kenya's Mau Mau finding it more
and more difficult to steal guns
to arm their ragged army of sav-
ages are making their own
I have Just been shown a col
lection captured in the battle area
of Nakuru 100 miles west of the
capital I saw rifles made out of
lengths of electric wiring conduit
piping and "bamboo bazookas"
As British troops deploy to new
jungle stations for the final assault
on the Mau Mau combat patrols
of African troops special police
and loyal spear-toting natives are
recovering many of the weapons
They include the home-made var-
iety and latest type automatic car-
bines stolen from Army depots
and police stations where security
measures were allowelfto lapse
Long before Mau Mau launched
their attacks on European farm
I houses from their forest hideouts'
they had been accumulating a mis-
cellaneous armory '
It ranged from ladies handbag
automatics and parlor guns to colts
and elephant rifles They augment-
ed that armory in carefully plan-
ned and bloody raids
Today the picture is changing--
slowly
The possession of a gun to the
Mau Mau is a sign of rank Some
of the swaggering leaders styling
themselves brigadiers generals
and sporting stolen uniforms go
about armed with as many guns
as they can carry
So in forest hideouts in the mud
and thatch 'huts in mountain vil-
lages and even on European farms
in slums in Nairobi and perhaps
even surreptitiously in government
workshops Mau Mau men are
--turning out guns by the score
They are far more dangerous to
the firer than to the target But
they have morale value
A young police officer who
brought in two homemade guns
1while Owas at Nakuru told me:
"The Mau Mau know thatit's
almost Certain suicide or at the
best a blown-off hand if they fire
these things
"But when they go on food hunt-
ing forays into the reserves or try
to press-gang new members a gun
is a powerful weapon even the
sight of it The average Kkuyu
cannot tell the genuine from the
fake To him anything that looks
lke a 'bundooki' (native word for
gun) is a 'bundooki' "
These guns had barrels made
from three-feet lengths of three
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FLUSHING A MAU MAU: Aga- inst the real rifles of Kenya's police the native terrorists are
resorting to homemade rifles and "bamboo bazookas"—which very often backfire
eighths-inch electric conduit The
butt was roughly carved from a
branch and the bolt was just a
door bolt
The firing mechanism was a
piece of elastic tied around the
handle of the bolt and secured
to a nail on the butt To fire the
elastic is released and the bolt
shoots forward to strike the prim-
er of the cartridge
That's the intention
"These guns will kill more Mau
Mau Than they will kill us" a
policeman explained "That's why
they rarely indict casualties on the
security forcesBut the 'bamboo
bazooka that's a different kettle
of fish altogether"
And so I saw the Mau Mau's
secret weapon
It's dangerous and has already
put one police officer out of ac-
tion and its simple It can be
made in three minutes
In consists of three main ingred-
ients — four-inch length of hollow
bamboo a stone and stolen 12-
bore cartridges
The cartridge is inserted and the
brass lip rests on the edge of the
bamboo Then the stone is just
bashed against the primer There's
la lot of recoil but at point-
blank range these weapons are dan
geious
"They can use -em at night"
was told "A Mau Mau is chal-
lenged at close quarters He is
told to shove his hands up If he
has a loaded 'bazooka' in one hand
and a stone in the other all he
does as he lifts his hands is to
bang one against the other
One of our chaps bought that
one the other day He's in hospi-
tal now Th doctors have dug half
a dozen pellets out of his face
and one from his lungs has been
collapsed The Mau Mau are mak-
ing these by the hundred They are
not much of a weapon but they
make a bang and they can do
damage
And so the Mau Mau battle goes
on the primitive against the mod-
ern It estimated that the real
Mau Mau army numbers something
like 500
That's the hard core of desperate
murders who can call at a minute's
notice 10000 tribesmen who have
sworn on the secret oath of the
society to kill when they are called
upon to do so '
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Hugo Family Tries
To Befriend Skunks
HUGO Okla (A') — The Elmo
skunks in their barn lot last year
befriended them removed ther
odor sacs and tried to make pets
of them But one by one all five
disappeared from the farm
The Robison boys Rance and
Elms° Jr recently found a litter of
sixbaby skunks in the barn The
boys checked up and identified the
mother as one of the five they
had befriended last year They now
plan another try at making pets of
the little cats
GO TO CHURCH TODAY
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George Is Employed
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Sam George son of Mr' and Mrs
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He was transferred from Odessa
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Thomas Howard George the
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George is employed in the Mid-
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west City
WEATHER IS COOLER
After highs last week of around
107 degrees the temperature was
able to reach only a pleasant 85
degrees Friday in Okemah T h e
low was 68
FlOTICE
MARRIAGES
Arthur A Blankenship of Wetum-
ka and Cathryne Crawford of We-
tumka License issued July 11 Mar-
ried July 11 by S M Jackson‘
in the presence of Wanda El lard
and Carl Crawford both of We-
leetka Laray Robison of Tulsa and
Jo Ann Dawley of Okemah Licen
1 se issued July IL
‘DIVORCES
Leona Menser vs Willie L Men-
ser divorce granted July 11
J Alford vs Dora Alford
petition filed July 11
Patricia Pe 'Icy vs Phillip Pelky
petition filed July 11
Norman Jean Barnett vs Ben-
jamin J Barnett divorce granted
July 11 —
GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY -
During the Summer Months
THE MACK SHACK
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Monday Through Friday
AND 7:30 pm ON SATURDAY
CLOSED ALL DAY SUNDAY
WE OPEN AT 6 am
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for their splendid patronage during our initial period
of operation
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INVErME'RE- BC (Al Rad-
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built in 1951 by the federal govern-
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expecting a record number of tour-
ists and arthritic suffers seeking
relief
A new 25-metre pool half Olym-
pic size has been lighted by 17 1-
000-mitt submerged lights and the
114degree (Fahrenheit) water is-
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Chemical analysis has confirm-
ed the exi:tence of radium in the
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July 12-26-Daily 10 am and 8 pm
OKLAHOMA TIRE ett
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Sth & Ash Joe L Ingi-am Pastor
DR 1: A PENNINGTON
TONIGHT - 8:00 O'CLOCK
"THE HEAVENLY BIRTH"
Sermon by Our Pastor
SUPPLY
water While medical authorities
refuse to concede any curative-vat
ue for the water it is reomted
some people arriving ' in wtttrt—
chairs or on crutches have walk- -
ed aWili after relaxing in the
tepid Lath
Meters Freeze Up
LEWISTON Mont — When
reports were made on the collec-
tions from parking meters here
they revealed the weather has been
playing tricks on the collectors of
the coins Freezing temperatures
in May caused the meters to freeze
up during several nights
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Strong, Jack W. Okemah Daily Leader (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 158, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 12, 1953, newspaper, July 12, 1953; Okemah, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2165458/m1/3/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed June 27, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.