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

TURK121 TURKANA DISTRICT MONTHLY INTELLIGENCE REPORTS (D. C.
LODWAR). Jan 1937-Dec 1941. 300 pp.
Corres?ondence re IRs.
Turkana District (Lodwar) IRs, 1937. R. D. F. Ryland, DC; J. A. H. Wolff,
for DC; Lt Commdr D. McKay, DC. Jan-Dec. 84 pp.
Italo-A3yssinian war: Eritrean and Abyssinian refugees, smallpox in Abyssinia,
spies, disarmament of Merille by Italians; tribal affairs: stock theft, murder,
feuds, movements, trespass of Kenya, Sudan, Abyssinia, and Uganda borders;
tax; trade; poaching; stock disease; smallpox; RAF, KAR activities; education;
game; court cases; staff movement; forest conservation.
Turkana District (Lodwar) IRs, 1938. Lt Commdr D. McKay, DC; G. C. M.
Dowson, for DC; G. G. Kerr, for DC. Jan-Dec. 53 pp.
Italian affairs in Abyssinia: border problems over fishermen and tribal border
movemants, smallpox, Abyssinian guerrilla warfare, desertion from Italian
army, new military posts, refugees, espionage; tribal movements, trespass
along tlle Kenyan-Uganda border; banda trespass from Abyssinia; tax; trade;
locusts; poaching; RAF, KAR activities; educatio11;game; smallpox; stats on
jud, stz~ff movements.
Turkana District (Lodwar) IRs, 1939. Lt Commdr D. McKay, DC; A. C. C. Swann,
for DC. Jan-Dec. 45 pp.
Italian military movements in Abyssinia; border problems, KAR patrols; tribal
affairs: stock theft, murder, movements, boundary trespass involving Kenya,
Sudan, Uganda, Abyssinia; tax; trade; locusts; stock disease; Oxford Sociologi-
cal Exredition; drought, stock deaths; RAF, KAR activities; local reaction to
European war; refusal of Isaak Somali to pay tax; education; prospecting; stats
on jud, staff movements.
Turkana Di.jtrict (Lodwar) IRs, 1940. Lt Commdr D. McKay, DC; A. C. C. Swann,
for DC; H. G. Gregory-Smith, DC; R. A. Wilkinson, DO, for DC. Jan-Dec.
29 PP.
Abyssi:lian raids; tribal affairs: stock theft, movements, boundary trespass in-
volving Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Abyssinia; tax; RAF, KAR activities; refusal of
Isaak Somali to pay tax; local efforts in international war; unrest, evacuation of
Lokitac.ng; arming of Turkana; military recruitment; game damage, counter-
measures; stats on jud, staff movements.
Turkana District (Lodwar) IRs, 1941. J. D. Stringer, DO, for DC; R. A. Wilkinson,
for DC; W. B. 1 ~oudon?] . Jan-Dec. 28 pp.
Tribal murder, stock theft, movements; settlement of tribal trespass problems
betwee I Kenya and Sudan; trade; poaching; stock disease; war efforts: KAR,
RAF activities, food supply problems, advancement into Abyssinia, removal of
Italian threat to Lodwar, OETA.
[ ~osthern?] Turkana IRs, 1941. H. G. Gregory-Smith, DC. Jan-Dec. 45 pp.
Tribal movements, settlement of trespass problems between Kenya and Uganda;
tax; ac ;ivities of 5th Irregular Company; local military recruitment, conflict
with Itzlians, Italian activity; attitude of Merille people; advancement into
Ab_yssilia; disbanding of 5th Irregular; education; illegal arms; court cases.
Report by C). C. 'A' Coy, 5th Irregular Battalion, for week commencing 19/5/41,
ending 9/6/41. 5 pp.
Daily diary; position and attitudes of Merille; retreat of Italians; details of advancen~ent
into Abyssinia.
LOK/ 10 TURKANA DISTRICT MONTHLY INTELLIGENCE REPORTS (LOKITAUNG).
1932-1937. 248 pp.
Turkana Det. 4th Kings African Rifles IRs, 1932. Lt E. J. Howard; Capt [Brush?].
Apr-June, Sept, Nov-Dec. 20 pp.
Abyssinian affairs: Merille raids into Kenya, tribal movements over border, border
problems; tribal movements, cattle theft; trade; settlement of tribal boundary
proble~ns on international borders; Fort Wilkinson; French Scientific Expedition.