Proceeding to deal with the position of the police in this International Settlement, counsel observed thab possibly they might be brought in contact with five or six nationalities every day. They might, for example, be called to take action against an Italian, and it might be that in one set of circumstances an Italian could be arrested without a warrant. In the next half hour they might he called upon to deal with a Dane, and again it might "be that, in precisely similar circumstances, under Danish law he could not by arrested without a warrant. So that the police were in an exceptionally difficult position. Counsel submitted that in this case the police acted reasonably, and that the Council should not be called upon to pay damages because a slight technical fault under the law of one particular nation.
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