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

Turkana District (Kapenguria) IRs, 1936. C. B. Thompson, OIC. Jan-Dec.
168 pp.
Abyss inian affairs: internal disorders, Me rille -Donyiro fighting, raids ex-
tend into Kenya; tribal affairs: stock theft, feuds, movements, prophets pre-
dict i-lternational war, Suk circumcision ceremonies, objections to new crops,
boundary trespass; effect of tax reduction; trade; poaching; stock disease; KAR
border patrol; problems on the Abyssinian border; forest reserves; education;
comrriunication problems; high rainfall; tribal trespass of Uganda and Sudan
borders; encouragement of fishing; mission activity; game; stats on jud, staff
move.nents.
Lokitaung Sub-District IRs, 1936. E. J. A. Leslie, DO. June-Aug. 19 pp.
Abysr.inian situation unsettled; Merille incursions; Turkana-Merille feuds; tax;
stock disease; KAR patrols; report by Col Sandford.
Memora ldum re support of Italian rule, by Governor-General, Marshall Graziani
of Italy. n. d. 1 p.
Appezls to Abyssinian Galla.
TURK11 5 TURKANA EXTRA PROVINCIAL MONTHLY INTELLIGENCE
REPOR1'S(KAPENGURIA). Jan1937-Nov1940. 418pp.
Turkana District (Kapenguria) IRs, 1937. C. B. Thompson, OIC; H. Izard,
OIC. ;'an-Dec. 143 pp.
Tribal affairs: theft of stock, feuds, movements, boundary trespass, govt
retritjution for trespass; tax; trade; poaching; stock disease; smallpox vac-
cinations; KAR and RAF patrols and activity; trespass causes problems on
Uganda border; repercussions of Italo-Abyssinian War on the Turkana border,
refugses, Italian advances, Abyssinian resistance, Italian take over of Maju
area, poor health of refugees; encouragement of fishing; forest conservation;
ill health of European administrative staff; court cases; education expansion;
relations with new Italian officials; Italian military border activity; stats on
staff movements.
Turkana District (Kapenguria) IRs, 1938. C. B. Thompson, OIC; K. L. Hunter,
OIC. .fan-Dec. 117 pp.
Italian affairs in Abyssinia: slow consolidation of authority, Abyssinian guerrilla
resistance, Italian military movements, propaganda, new posts, good local
British-Italian relations, Merille raids into Kenya; tribal affairs: cattle theft,
feuds, movements, boundary demarcation and trespass; tax; trade; locusts;
stock disease; smallpox; KAR activity; Italian border incursions; education;
forest conservation; tribal trespass of Uganda border; court cases; more
Abys:;inian refugees; agricultural problems; game; Isaak Somali agitation,
refusal to pay tax; LNC activities (esp education); little local interest in inter-
national events.
Correspondence re frontier affairs, between J. K. R. Thorp, DO; to DC, Lodwar.
n. d. 1 p.
Italian affairs in Abyssinia, rumours of their plans.
Turkana District (Kapenguria) IRs, 1939. K. L. Hunter, OIC; J. G. Hopkins,
OIC. May-June, Aug-Dec. 66 pp.
Italian affairs in Abyssinia: stats on Italian military manpower and equipment,
bordt r problems resulting from tribal activities; tribal affairs: movement,
bounc:ary trespass, Merille and Donyiro raid and massacre of Turkana, com-
pensi tion to Turkana, results of feuds; tax; trade; poaching; education; local
effec'.s of international warfare, counter-actions against dangerous rumours;
forest demarcation; KAR activity; international complications of Merille ag-
gresE ive activity; drought complications; game damage; stats on jud.
Report re Turkana massacre, by K. L. Hunter, OIC. July-Aug 1939. 19 pp.
Massacre, international complications, KAR expedition against Merille,
Turk.ina prevented from gaining retribution, difficult meetings between Italian
and Eiritish officials, additional complication with European warfare.