Police swoop on clerics
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright.) JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 25. Security police today made a city-wide swoop on prominent church figure* in an apparent search for subversive literature, an Anglican Church spokesman reported. Teams of special branch detectives searched the offices of St Mary’s Anglican Cathedral In Johannesburg and homes and fiats of church officials and church workers, the spokesman said. The police swoop came the day before the Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, the Very Rev. Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, was due to appear In court again on subversion and other charges. The spokesman, the Diocesan secretary, Mr Neil Harrison, told Reuten “It really was a swoop. They arrived at the flat of the assistant secretary, Mr John Turnbull, at 6 o'clock this morning. He was at Mass and they came and took him from the Cathedral and back to his fiat and searched it.” Mr Harrison said that detectives arrived at his own flat in the Cathedral precincts at 6.40 a.m. “They searched all my papers and examined photographs, and they searched my car. They left at 8.20,” he said.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32541, 26 February 1971, Page 1
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