Members of the Japanese armed forces, he went on were not liable to arrest by ordinary police in Japan. "Consequently," he added, "they will not submit to arrest by the Shanghai Municipal Police."
Japanese civilians, however, could be taken into custody by the Shanghai Municipal Police, provided they were handed over at once to the Japanese Consular Police.
The duties of the patrols, the spokesman declared, were limited to exercising control over members of the Japanese armed forces "just as military police of other armed forces exercise control over their own men,"
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