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

Marsabit District IRs, 1938. G. Reece, DC; J. H. Lewis, DC. Jan-May.
31 PP.
Italian affairs in Abyssinia: tribal movements across the border, new Italian
posts in Abyssinia, hunting by Italian banda; tribal movements, Turkana en-
croachment into Marsabit; tax; trade; stock disease; new mission school;
game damage; forest conservation.
Marsabit District Frontier IRs (Monthly Military Intelligence Summaries), 1938.
Mar-May. 15 pp.
Collection of intelligence; analysis of feelings toward British; Gelubba and
Gabb.:a neither pro-Italian nor pro-British; description of new Italian positions;
tribal operations across international boundary; Italian propaganda; Italian ban-
da mutiny.
Marsabit District IRs, 1939. J. A. Sweeney, ASP, for DC; W. F. Coutts, DC.
Jan-Dec. 135 pp.
Italian affairs in Abyssinia: tribal movements from Abyssinia, Gabbra discon-
tent, military movements and raid on Boran, Italian posts, African military
recr~.itment, trouble with shiftas, troop reinforcement from Italy, propaganda,
Italians purchasing by chits, banda murder of Gabbra women, desertion from
Italian army; tribal movements; Boran Gedamochi ceremonies; tax; trade;
locusts; poaching; stock disease; mission school; judicial cases; game damage;
forest conservation; "war scare" among Boran (other Africans not interested);
stats on X-M.
DC/MBrr 3/ 213 MARSABIT DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE REPORTS. 1936-1 937.
109 pp.
Marsabit District IRs, 1936. Aug-Dec. 40 pp.
Fragments of year contained in IR/294.
Marsabit District IRs, 1937. Jan-Dec. 67 pp.
Identical to IR/ 296 (except no Aug).
DC/ MB'T 3/ 214 MARSABIT DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE REPORTS. 1938.
67 PP.
Corres~ondence re collection of intelligence. 1938. 7 pp.
Identical to IR/244 (except no local district replies to instructions from higher
officials).
Marsablt District IRs, 1938. J. H. Lewis, DC. June-Dec. 58 pp.
Tribal movements; tax; trade; stock disease; forest conservation; new Moslem
school; game damage; judicial cases; stats on X-M.
DC/ MB'r 3/21 5 MARSABIT DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE REPORTS. 1940-1 946.
473 pp.
Marsab t District IRs, 1940. W. F. Coutts, DC; J. A. H. Wolff, DC; J. K. R.
Thorp, DC. Jan-Dec. 105 pp.
Italiz n affairs in Abyssinia: Gelubba raid Gabbra, tribal movements across
bordl.r, propaganda, shiftas, Boran military recruitment, inter-tribal war
(Boran vs Degodia, Gurreh), banda raids across border; tribal murder, move-
ments; tax; trade; poaching; stock disease; forest conservation; game damage;
cour; cases; township fear of Italian invasion; effect locally of international
war; township bombed; problems with tribal police; Gold Coast Regiment;
1taliz.n patrols invade district; British military preparations.
Marsab~t
District IRs, 1941. J. K. R. Thorp, DC; P. Whiteing, ASP, for DC.
Jan-Dec:. 59 pp.
Shiftxs; tribal movements; tax; stock disease; military engagements; "enemy"
cleared from district; border troubles resulting from disruption of the war,
esp Ivlerille raids; game.