UNREST IN NAIROBI
YOUNG NATIVES CAUSE DISORDERS TRIBAL ANTAGONISM (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) British Official Wireless Reed. Noon. RUGBY, Tuesday. According to a Press message from Nairobi, Sir Edward Grigg, Governor of Kenya Colony, has made a tour of the territory of the Masai and Lwiibwa tribes, inquiring into the reports of the tendency to trouble between these tribes. He made a statement on the subject to the Legislative Council today. He said there Avas always a danger of a collision betAveen the Masai and Lurubwa tribes, which were traditionally antagonistic. Young warriors of both tribes had been gathering without the permission of the chiefs, and as a result there had been an increasing number of cattle thefts, burglaries and disorders. Any general attitude of hostility to European settlers was unlikely, but police had been drafted into the Lumbwa territory and a company of the King’s African Rifles had been ordered to patrol the Masai territory The canning of arms had been -prohibited in the vicinity of the boundary between the two native territories.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 801, 23 October 1929, Page 9
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174UNREST IN NAIROBI Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 801, 23 October 1929, Page 9
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