GANG SMASHED
IN SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE POLICE COMMISSIONER’S I STATEMENT. NUMBER OF YOUNG MEN MISLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CAPE TOWN, January 21. Colonel Baston, Police Commissioner, in an official statement on the arrest of 400 policemen on suspicion of subversive activity, said the arrests revealed ample evidence that the detained men were members of a Storm Troop division.
The arrests followed a volunteer brigade’s swoop on scores of Transvaal police stations. Dangerous weapons, including bombs, were seized. The arrested men include a large number of young men who may have been carried away or misled. Those in gaol could not be trusted to carry out the efficient protection of the public or the maintenance of law and order. 1
The Minister of Justice declared he was confident that the Leibrandt gang would be finally smashed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1942, Page 2
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135GANG SMASHED Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1942, Page 2
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