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From Nairobi's panicky whites went a wail for regular troops to clear out the Negro locations. This meant withdrawing British infantrymen from their battle stations in the mountains, but Commander in Chief General Sir George Erskine could not resist the clamor. Six hundred young Inniskilling Fusiliers, in jungle-green uniforms and black berets, marched into Nairobi last week with orders to screen every African in the city. "Nairobi wants to rid itself of between 15,000 and 20,000 Negroes who are living in the city without permission," said Police Chief John Timmermann. The cops admitted that they could not keep any more Kukes in jail because "our prisons and detention camps are already too full."
Last week Governor Baring confessed to the boys of Prince of Wales school that "Kenya will still be in a state of stress when you are middle-aged." General Erskine had to agree. "The situation is no longer purely military," he gruffly announced. "There is no military answer to white-black tension . . . Bullets alone will not finish the Mau Mau."
* Thirteen more white settlers have killed themselves by their clumsy handling of their own guns.