Looters were generally pilled into motor lorries under a heavy escort. These lorries would then drive out through the streets of the city. Stopping at a street corner, a lorry would discharge one looter. The man would sometimes be tied to a telephone pole, but more often than not merely kneeled or stood in the road. The man in charge of the marine escort would tell the assembled little crowd that looting was punishable by death, and, as a practical demonstration, the looter in question would be shot before them Well-known for Charitable
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