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

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Marsabit District IRs, 1932. H. G. Oldfield, DC. Jan-Nov (continued on
IR1289). 39 pp.
Abyssinian affairs: Gelubba massacre of Headman Dadu and 93 followers in
Abyssinia and cattle raid on Boran and Rendille, KAR posted at Lake Rudolf
(Alia Bay). Gelubba-KAR skirmishes; tribal murder, feuds, movements; tax;
trade; .ocust invasion; poaching; stock disease; Turkana encroachments; forced
removzl; Boran, Gabbra fail to send sons to school; Boran destruction of game
on Mt. Marsabit; judicial cases; game damage; border quiet; burglary; em-
bezzlernent; influenza epidemic; forest fires; stats on X-M.
Patrol Re:~ort of [ ? ] Sandwith, ASP (Marsabit) to DC. No. 6, 1/7/32; no. 8,
5/9/32. 6 pp.
Check made on reports of Abyssinian raiders; locust invasion.
Marsabit District IRs, 1932. H. G. Oldfield, DC. Dec. 2 pp.
Tax; trade; stock disease; forest conservation; stats on X-M.
Marsabit District IRs, 1933. H. G. Oldfield, DC; M. W. Low, DC; K. T. M.
Holmes, .\SP, for DC. Jan-Dec. 42 pp.
Abyssinian affairs: movements across the border, internal tribal fighting;
tribal affairs: cattle theft, murder, feuds, movements; tax; trade; stock
disease; forest conservation; suspected Gelubba "spies"; stats on X-M.
Marsabit District IRs, 1934. M. W. Low, DC. Jan-Dec. 48 pp.
Tribal affairs: cattle theft, murder, feuds, movements; tax; trade; poaching,
game extermination, stock disease; epidemic; Abyssinian Boran forceably
evictec~; smallpox, vaccination; Rift Valley Expeditions, two missing; British
compl; ints about Abyssinian Gelubba; stats on X-M.
DC/ MBT 3/21 2 MARSABIT DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE REPORTS. 1935 - 1939.
470 pp.
Marsabit District IRs, 1935. M. W. Low, DC; W. H. Hale, DC; E. M.
Hyde-Clark, DC. Jan-Nov. 73 pp.
Abyssinian affairs: Gelubba incursions, patrols; tribal affairs: cattle theft,
feuds, movements, boundaries imposed, Gabbra raid Gelubba; tax; trade;
poaching; local mission; judicial cases; prison escapee; land survey; district
aerodromes (airfields); RAF visits; KAR camps; forest conservation; stats on
X- M.
Marsabit District IRs, 1936. W. H. Hale, DC. Jan-Dec. 105 pp.
Abyss:nian affairs: Boran information on Italians in Abyssinia, slow Italian
advance, Amhara resistance, Norwegians and Swedish flee into Kenya; tribal
affairs: movements, ~outh mutilated by "moral degenerate"; tax; trade;
poaching; stock disease; RAF reconnaissance; court cases (esp tax); airfields;
forest conservation; game damage; Eritrean prisoners; rabies; stats on X-M.
Report rr. Kikoi Patrol, by DC, Marsabit. 18/7/37. 2 pp.
Rugge6l terrain impossible for motor transport.
Marsabit District IRs, 1937. W. H. Hale, DC; G. Reece, DC. Jan-Dec.
75 PP-
Abyssinian affairs: Italian consolidation of position, Italian propaganda on an-
nexing parts of Kenya, new Italian posts, numerous and important Abyssinian
refugees, problems re Abyssinian refugees murdered by Boran or Gabbra;
tribal affairs: movements, Samburu forceably removed; tax; trade; poaching;
stock disease; game damage; Bible Churchman's Mission Society; forest con-
servation; RAF reconnaissance; criminal cases.
Report rc: evidence against Boran and Gabbra in connection with murders of Abys-
sinian refugges, by ASP, Marsabit. Aug 1937. 6 pp.
Details of murders; evidence against Boran, Gabbra; victims mutilated; revenge
possit le motive.