LOOTING AT FOGGIA

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 6, 2 October 1943, Page 5

LOOTING AT FOGGIA

Correspondent’s Story Of Wild Abandon (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. Copyright.) (Special Correspondent.) LONDON, September 30., _ Alan Moorhead, of the “Daily Express” tells a fantastic story of looting at Foggia. He says that more than ‘-’OO 000 people vanished after the Allied ■bombing. When the Germans retired they looted the city. -They snatched mostly clothing.” he. says. ’After tie Germans came the usual hangers-on, and what the Germans had left these tinisned off. I thought that in the last three vears I had seen the extremities of looting. but here it touched the peak of wild, senseless abandon. “At the local 'Woolworth store the people simplv clawed down the steel shutters with axes and picks. They ran past the counters, snatching up goods without apparently knowing or caring what they got. When packages fell into the floor they trampled them underfoot. It was the same in shop after shop. In the wealthiest jewellers’ shops the looters went straight through the plate-glass windows and snatched up rings and necklaces by the handful. They dragged from the cellars dozens of big wooden cases which had just arrived from Switzerland, and as they raked through the straw to get at watches and trinkets the debris mounted to (he roof of the shop.” A correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” at Zurich reports widespread sabotage in north Italy, where there were mass arrests ajl( l summary executions.