Sta,—I should like to thank " A Settler " for
his courteous letter,' and to assure him that the allegations of corruption and extortion in my previous letter referred to the Kikuyu Home Guard and the Askaris, and certainly not to the Europeans. It may be that the heading gave a wrong impression, but 1 thought the context made my meaning clear.
What I wanted to stress was the duty of the British authorities to keep a tight rein on the activities of the African Police and Home Guard. It is not enough to say that Africans are notoriously cruel to other Africans, and leave it at that. If we give uneducated Africans power to act in the Queen's name, we have a special responsibility to see that they do not bring disgrace upon it. It is a big problem, but we cannot afford to be fatalistic.—Yours faithfully,
1. W. TOLFREE
2 Kent View, Kendal, Westmorland
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