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Page 49 - vessels having on board any officer in the military or naval service of the enemy, or any article prohibited or contraband of war, or any dispatch of or to the Eussian Government. And it is hereby further ordered by Her Majesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Council as aforesaid, that any
Page 127 - ET MALADES DANS LES ARMÉES EN CAMPAGNE. Sa Majesté l'Empereur d'Allemagne, Roi de Prusse; Son Excellence le Président de la République Argentine; Sa Majesté l'Empereur d'Autriche, Roi de Bohême, etc., et Roi Apostolique de Hongrie; Sa Majesté le Roi des Belges;
Page 138 - at Geneva, the sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and six, in a single copy, which shall remain in the archives of the Swiss Confederation and certified copies of which shall be delivered to the contracting parties through diplomatic channels. ART. 31.
Page 136 - accompanied by the national flag of the belligerent to whose service the formation or establishment is attached. Sanitary formations which have fallen into the power of the enemy, however, shall fly no other flag than that of the Red Cross so long as they continue in that situation. ART. 22. The sanitary
Page 139 - Swiss Federal Council, with a view to revising the International Convention of August 22, 1864, for the Amelioration of the Condition of Soldiers wounded in Armies in the field, met at Geneva on June 11, 1906. The Powers hereinbelow enumerated took part in the Conference to which they
Page 132 - ART. 6. Mobile sanitary formations (i, e., those which are intended to accompany armies in the field) and the fixed establishments belonging to the sanitary service shall be protected and respected by belligerents. ART. 7. The protection due to sanitary formations and establishments ceases if they are used to commit
Page 27 - If such a rule did not exist all goods shipped in the enemy's country would be protected by transfers which it would be impossible to detect. It is on that principle held, I believe, as a general rule, that property can not be converted in transits, and in that sense I recognize it as the
Page 131 - in whose power they are. A belligerent, however, when compelled to leave his wounded in the hands of his • Adversary, shall leave with them, so far as military conditions permit, a portion of the personnel and materiel of his sanitary service to assist in caring for them. ART. 2. Subject to the care that must be taken
Page 128 - Consul-General in Switzerland; His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, etc., and Apostolic King of Hungary: His Excellency Baron, Heidler de Egeregg et Syrgenstein, Actual Privy Councilor, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berne; His Majesty the King of the Belgians: Colonel of Staff Count de T'Serclaes, Chief of Staff of the Fourth Military District; His Royal Highness the Prince of Bulgaria: Dr.
Page 140 - be deposited in the archives of the Swiss Confederation and certified copies of which shall be delivered to all the Powers represented at the Conference. . (Signatures.) NOTE.—Signed at Geneva July 6, 1906. Ratification advised by the Senate December 19, 1906. Ratified by the President of the United States January 2, 1907.