WHY BISHOP FLED
Thought Arrest Was Imminent
LONDON, April 9.
The Bishop of Johannesburg, the Right Rev. Ambrose Reeves, fled to Swaziland from South Africa because he believed he was about to be "silenced” by being arrested under the Emergency Regulations, according to the “Daily Mail.”
Dr. Reeves was Interviewed at Mbabane, the , capital of the British Protectorate of Swaziland. Dr. Reeves said he had collected a great deal of information about the shootings at Sharpeville. He believed it showed the shootings and the deaths were “unnecessary.” The two lawyers who had worked with him in interrogating the wounded survivors at Baragwanath Hospital, had both been detained under the Emergency Regulations. He said he would return to South Africa if he received a “reasonable assurance” that he would not be arrested or detained. Inquiries to the South African Government were being made on his 'behalf by the British High Commissioner, Sir John Maude.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29177, 11 April 1960, Page 15
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