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

PC/NFD C /4/ 5 GARISSA DISTRICT MONTHLY INTELLIGENCE REPORTS.
Jan 1936-Ilec 1937. 152 pp.
Corres1)ondence re IRs.
Garissa D.strict IRs, 1936. Identical to 1~1235.
Garissa D..strict IRs, 1937. Identical to IR/236.
PC/NFD 31416 GARISSA DISTRICT MONTHLY INTELLIGENCE REPORTS.
Jan 1938-May 1938. 32 pp.
Garissa D~strict IRs, 1938. R. Tatton Brown, DC; J. W. Cusack, DC.
Jan-May. 27 pp.
Italian ,iffairs: reports of training Somali sailors, airfield (Kolbio) poor condition,
K ismayu garrison strengthened, rumours of Jubaland cession to Germany;
tribal affairs: movements, Degodia incursions, Aulihan intra-tribal sectional
friction; tax; trade; stock disease; attempts to control game damage; water
consertlation; KAR recruitment; Korokoro belief about porcupines.
Garissa D~strict (NFD) Frontier IR, Special Report, 1938. J. W. Cusack, DC.
Mar. 3 3p.
Several villages return from Somaliland; little information on Italian activity.
PC/NFD Ti1417 GARISSA DISTRICT MONTHLY INTELLIGENCE REPORTS.
Feb 1938-Dec 1939. 202 pp.
Corres~ondence re IRs.
Correspordence re collection of IRs from Northern and Eastern Districts bordering
Italian areas, between HQ, Northern Brigade, KAR (Nairobi); C. W. Hayes
Sadler, for AgColSecy; W. G. Glenday, OIC (NFD); DC (Garissa). 8/2/38 to
23/2/38. 12 pp.
Methods of collection, reporting; advise re signs of eminent Italian attack;
demand for special monthly reports.
Garissa District Frontier IRs, 1938. J. W. Cusack, DC. Feb-May. 17 pp.
District tribes description, analysis of feelings toward British; patterns of
tribal r~ovement; Sultan Stambul Abdi "10yal;~' Italian affairs: propaganda, pro-
Islam ~olicy, African recruitment, rumours re Jubaland cession to Germany,
Italian deserters, rumours re poison gas supplies at Kismayu.
Garissa District Monthly IRs and Military Intelligence Summary (Report). 1938.
J. W. Cusack, DC; H. H. Low, DC; F. D. Homan, DO. June-Dec. 61 pp.
Italian affairs: African reports of Italian in Somaliland, troop increase, propa-
ganda; trade; tribal movements, murder; attempts to control game damage;
little African interest in British international cause; stats on X-M.
Garissa District Monthly IRs and Military Intelligence Report, 1939. F. D.
Homan, CC; Capt D. H. Wickham, DC. Jan-Dec. 101 pp.
Italian affairs: typhoid outbreak, African recruitment, troops, rumours re
Jubalar~d cession to Germany; tribal affairs: movements, murder resulting in
extended Abd Wak-Aulihan quarrel, other murders; tax; trade; Kamba
poachers; stock disease; typhoid outbreak; two Italian deserters returned to
Italian authorities; game problems; new emergency landing ground; murder
cases; mild effect of international tensions on district; boundary overgrown;
KAR maneuvers; stats on X.
PC/NFD 31418 GARISSA DISTRICT MONTHLY INTELLIGENCE REPORTS.
Jan 1940-Jan 1945. 260 pp.
Correspondence re IRs.
Garissa Llistrict IRs, 1940. Capt D. H. Wickham, DC; W. F. Coutts, DC;
Capt C. E. Williams, DC. Jan-Dec. 72 pp.
Italian affairs: propaganda, supplies short, rumours re troop movement, troop
incurs.on into Kolbio area; tribal murder; tax; trade; game problems; tribes
fear abandonment to Italians; township and Bura bombed; air battle; Africans
quiet, fear Italian banda; stock disease.