"Military police" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of value when I came to be pursued by mounted military police, who suspected me of being a spy at some manoeuvres abroad. After a rare chase I scrambled over a wall and dropped into an orchard of low fruit trees. Here squatting in a ditch, I watched the legs ...
— My Adventures as a Spy • Robert Baden-Powell
... following the trees which lined the road at regular intervals he was fairly sure to keep the road. He was very tired and soon began to feel sleepy, but the driving storm, which by this time had assumed the proportions of a tempest, stung him to wakefulness. Once, at a cross-roads a Military Police stopped and questioned him and gave him directions upon his saying that he ...
— The War Romance of the Salvation Army • Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill
... into four classes: 1. Exterior—(Which come more properly under head of field service). 2. Interior—Their purpose is to preserve order, protect property and enforce police regulations. 3. Military Police—Also treated of in field service. 4. Provost Guards—Used in the absence of military police to aid civil authorities in preserving order among soldiers ...
— Military Instructors Manual • James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker
... were military police, yet their methods were far enough removed from all matters martial. Theirs it was to obey orders, but all similarity ended there. Each man was left free to think and act for himself. Brief orders, with little detail, were hurled at him. For the rest his superiors demanded one result—achievement. ...
— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum
... whom 71 were women, 34 old men of over seventy, 6 children from five to nine years old, and 11 under five. At Aerschot, a first batch of 78 men were taken out of the town, and ordered to advance in groups of three, holding each other by the hand, when they were made to pass in front of some German Military Police, who shot them all at short range with revolvers. Others had their hands bound so tightly that many screamed with pain: they spent the night lying on the ground, and were shot the next day. Many, ...
— Their Crimes • Various |
