Section V - Intelligence Reports: A Guide to the Kenya National ...

Moyale District Military IRs, 1938. Capt D. H. Wickham, DC. Mar-May.
13 PP.
Italian affairs: border tribes considered opportunists, Italians prefer Somalis
to Gal .a, propaganda, military recruitment, military forces detailed, sup-
plies, transport, communications, bridges, aerodromes, arms, hospitals,
major personalities described, white troops; tax.
Moyale District IRs, 1938. D. H. Wickham DC. June-Dec. 34 pp.
Italian affairs: attempts to be friendly, African recruitment, communications,
aerod~.omes, disturbances north of Lake Rudolf, new hospital, border move-
ments tribal affairs: murder, movements, Boran-Degodia feud; tax; trade;
KAR maneuvers; game.
Moyale Cistrict IRs, 1939. D. H. Wickham, DC; R. Tatton-Brown, DC; R.
G. Turnbull, DC; J. W. Cusack, DC. Jan-Dec. 106 pp.
Italian affairs: African recruitment, rumours of Germans, espionage, troop
moverlents, fighting at Konso, tribal movements across the border, supplies
short, communications, Italian attitudes, new Italian taxation in Somaliland
and At)yssinia, Abyssinian refugees handed to Italians; Italo-British problems
with the Gurreh, Boran, Degodia; Moyale boma evacuated; African destruction
of station after evacuation, African contempt for British after evacuation re-
sulting; in inter-tribal troubles; Italians still cordial to British; KAR activi-
ties; tribal affairs: cattle theft, movements; tax; trade; locusts.
Moyale Cistrict IRs, 1940. D. C. Swayne, ASP, for DC; Capt. J. W. Cusack,
DC. Jan-July. 96pp.
Italiac affairs(prior to Italo-British fighting); attempts to restore order in
Abyssinia, fighting in Maji region, n~mber of troops, sparse supplies, troop
movements, transport, communications, Italian officials lack of general internat~onal
knowledge, rumours of Germans coming to East Africa, ammunition
and arms, attempts to collect new tax, Italian attitudes, African recruitn~ent,
propaganda; KAR defensive preparations, troop movements; bombardment
of Moyale; capture of Moyale, Mandera bomas; tribal affairs:
Degodia-Ajuran feud, murder, movements; tax; trade; dysentery; traditional
belief:; of Boran, Gabbra; Boran "sooth-sayer's" prophecy of Italo-British
relations; refugees.
Moyale Emistrict IRs, 1941. Capt J. W. Cusack, DC; Maj M. Grant, DC;
Capt Hennings, for DC. Mar-Dec. 51 pp.
Tribal affairs: murder, various feuds resulting from international war, move-
ments, Gurreh raid Boran, payment of blood money, Boran-Gurreh murders;
trade recovery; registration of alien Somalis; stock disease; Moyale boundary
changed; KAR activities; re-building of station and township; illegal arms;
land administration survey.
Moyale Elistrict IRs, 1942. Maj H. M. Grant, DC; N. F. Kennaway, DC; C.
Campbell, forDC. Jan-Dec. 61pp.
Abyssinian affairs: border movements, Gurreh into Kenya, serious internal
disorcer, incursions by Abyssinian police, Boran-Gurreh war due to Abyssinian
inabi1:ty to keep order; shiftas; tax; tribal murder; poaching; stock disease;
influenza; problems associated with Abyssinian withdrawal.
Moyale Ilistrict IRs, 1943. N. F. Kennaway, DC; R. Tatton Brown, DC.
Jan-Dec. 70 pp.
Abyssinian affairs: Islamic raids within Abyssinia, govt attempts to stop them,
continued serious internal disorder, Boran-Gurreh murders, illegal taxation
of British tribesmen, refugees into Kenya, serious border incidents and
shifta incursions, improved conditions with new administrator, Watch Tower
movernent; tribal affairs: stock theft, murder, movements; locusts, counter-
meast.res; stock disease; famine relief due to food shortage; dysentery, typhoid;
Border Conference of leading tribal leaders, Abyssinian and British officials.