ARRESTS IN LONDON
Remembrance Meeting (N.Z.P.A .-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, March 19, Police arrested about 30 persons after scuffles in Trafalgar square today during a meeting in remembrance of Sharpeville and Langa, the South African towns where 72 Africans died on March 21 last year. At a London church service, the former Bishop of Johannesburg (the Rt. Rev, Dr. Ambrose Reeves) branded apartheid “a complete negation of what was accomplished by Jesus in Jerusalem.” Dr. Reeves, who was deported from South Africa last September following repeated criticism of apartheid, spoke of “vulgar luxuries and grinding poverty” he saw side by side in Johannesburg. After a silent march through London streets by 2000 supporters of the antiapartheid movement, the Trafalgar square meeting passed a resolution paying tribute to the Sharpeville and Langa victims, and pledging a continuing fight against apartheid. Later, a hundred members of an “opposition” demonstration marched along the Thames in single file with Union Jacks and banners saying “Keep Britain White.”
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29468, 21 March 1961, Page 15
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