PILFERING BY AMERICANS
ARMY SUPPLIES IN FRANCE
TRUCKLOADS DIVERTED WASHINGTON, (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) Jan. 3. The pilfering of army supplies in Northern Francs is being reduced following the use of methods found successful in other areas, said Brigadiergeneral Joseph Dillon, provost-marshal general in North Africa, Italy, and Southern France. He said that the only way to prevent looting was to place armed guards on trucks with orders to shoot. Racketeers in France and Italy sometimes paid army truck drivers 30,000 dollars a month for diverting a truckload of supplies. Every day there were numerous pitched battles on highways between Italian gangs and soldiers, but after 22 Italians had been killed in six weeks the situation was brought under control. Brigadier Dillon said he regretted that a substantial number of Americans had ' succumbed to temptation. Some soldiers who were earning 50 dollars were sending 1000 dollars a week to the United States, and thereby were trapped.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25735, 5 January 1945, Page 3
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