SIR,--A common-sense view on the anti-Mau Mau campaign has been
expressed in the letter by R. B. Magor. Strix's excellent remarks are ,a timely commentary on an affair that seems to have generated unnecessary heat in this country. The rightequs indignation of some papers is hard to understand when the precedents from the campaign in Malaya are so numerous.
Inter-battalion rivalry in the form of scores, etc., has been going on for three years and more in Malaya. The proportion of killed to wounded has been equally disproportionate, yet no outcry has been raised. The infantry battalion with the biggest " bag " to date in Malaya got an official congratulation from the High •Comrbissioner on its • return to this country, yet no angry voice was raised condemning the brutal British soldier.
As in Malaya, the British soldier in Kenya is doing his best in difficult circumstances. The carping criticism by those not on the spot can only help to lower the morale of servicemen in Kenya, and this surely should be avoided.—Yours faithfully,
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