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HUNGER STRIKE BY PRISONER WHO LANDED FROM U-BOAT

<Rec. 10 a.m.) JOHANNESBURG, June 25. Robey ' Leibrandt, former South African light heavy-weight boxing champion, began the thirteenth day of a hunger strike in Pretoria prison, where he is serving a life sentence for treason. Leibrandt started his hunger strike when the authorities refused to transfer him to a new prison for first offenders. He was sentenced in 1944 after landing on the west coast of Africa from a U-boat on Hitler’s orders.

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Evening Star, Issue 26137, 26 June 1947, Page 7

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HUNGER STRIKE BY PRISONER WHO LANDED FROM U-BOAT Evening Star, Issue 26137, 26 June 1947, Page 7

HUNGER STRIKE BY PRISONER WHO LANDED FROM U-BOAT Evening Star, Issue 26137, 26 June 1947, Page 7