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Convention Relative to the Opening of Hostilities*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

Extract

The convention as drawn up is substantially the same as the proposition submitted by the French delegation — and that proposition follows in the main the text adopted by the Institute de Droit International at its meeting at Ghent (September, 1906), when the whole subject was carefully discussed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1908

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Footnotes

1

For the full text of the Convention with translation, see Supplement.

References

2 Annuaire De l’Institute de Droit International, session de Gand 1906.

3 International Law, 2d ed., 1894, p. 135, “ or it may have been the idea that poisoning was not fair fighting – and this shows itself as a very strong feeling in very ancient days – that on the whole each combatant ought to have the means of employing his skill in resistance.”

4 Second commission; second subcommission; third session, July 12.

5 Second commission; second subcommission; third session, July 12 (remarks of Colonel Tinge).

6 Second commission; second subcommission; third session, July 12.

7 Belgian Amendment to the French proposition; annexe 3a, second commission; second subcommission.

8 House Report 754, p. 9, 52d Congress, 1st session.