KENYA: General China & Friends

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Many guerrilla chieftains seemed suspicious of the British offer. "We fear there is a wildcat in the bag," said one whom China interviewed. But at week's end, ten favorable replies had been received, and there were two important surrenders: "General Tanganyika," China's former second in command, and "General Katanga." Field Marshal Russia also replied—but in a taunting letter sent not to General China but to British District Officer John Candler. "Soon you die," the note said. Shortly afterwards, Candler drove into the forest and ran smack into Russia's ambush. His body was buried this week in Nairobi's cemetery, but without a head. Kimathi's men kept that as a trophy of the battle.