ANGLOPHOBIA

Further to the item dated the 23 June, below are two more letters from today’s Daily Mail:

The claim that there were no British troops in Kenya during 1949-50 (Letters) is mistaken.

I served in the Royal Engineers at Tsavo during the whole of 1949 and there was a string of Army camps stretching from Tsavo-Voi-Mackinnon Road-Mombasa. Mackinnon Road was destined to be a huge British Army base, and Tsavo and Voi were important in providing water filtration and a pipeline to Mack Road.

Most of the soldiers there were mainly involved in this project, but there were thousands of other British troops in Kenya at the time.

And:

The first British to enter Kenya were missionaries who succeeded in reducing inter-tribal fighting and disease, including smallpox, that had hitherto controlled the population.

The Mombasa-Uganda railway was built to counter the slave trade by improving access to the interior.

The introduction of white farmers was to improve food production and pay for the cost of the railway.

The first census in 1896 showed a population of 1.5million. By the time of Uhuru - independence - in 1963, the population had grown to 10.5million. At the turn of the century it was 23million and is now approaching 30million.