+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | [Illustration] | | | | =COUNTY OF LONDON.= | | | | =LOOTING, HOUSEBREAKING, AND= | | =OTHER OFFENCES.= | | | | =TAKE NOTICE.= | | | | (1) That any person, whether soldier or civilian, who enters any | | premises whatsoever for the purposes of loot; or is found with loot | | in his possession; or who commits any theft within the meaning of | | the Act; or is guilty of theft from the person, or robbery, with or | | without violence; or wilfully damages property; or compels by threats | | any person to disclose the whereabouts of valuables, or who demands | | money by menaces; or enters upon any private premises, viz. house, | | shop, warehouse, office, or factory, without just or reasonable cause, | | will be at once arrested and tried by military court-martial, and be | | liable to penal servitude for a period not to exceed twenty years. | | | | (2) That from this date all magistrates at the Metropolitan Police | | Courts will be superseded by military officers empowered to deal and | | adjudicate upon all offences in contravention to law. | | | | (3) That the chief Military Court-martial is established at the | | Metropolitan Police Court at Bow Street. | | | | FRANCIS BAMFORD, General, | | Military Governor of London. | | | | | | | | Governor’s Headquarters, | | New Scotland Yard, S.W., | | _September 19th, 1910_. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+