U.K. seamen imprisoned
(N.Z. PA. -Reuter—Copyright) PORT ELIZABETH, May 20. Three young British merchant seamen were imprisoned in Port Elizabeth yesterday on charges of contravening South Africa’s Suppression of Communism Act.
Joseph Williamson Carroll, aged 23, Andrew William Petts and Michael Leo Galvin, both aged 20, were each sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, 11 months of which was suspended. They were found guilty of distributing in Port Elizabeth pamphlets, said to have originated in Australia, supporting the banned African National Congress, an outlawed black organisation militantly opposed to apartheid. •The presiding Magistrate (Mr J. B. Robinson) said that the trio had met a girl in Melbourne who had taken them to the headquarters of a university students’ society, where they were asked to distribute the pamphlets in their South African port of call.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32612, 21 May 1971, Page 9
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