The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences: Plenary meetings of the conference. vol. II. Meetings of the first commission. vol. III. Meetings of the second, third and fourth commissions.- the conferences of 1899 and 1907, index

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James Brown Scott
Oxford University Press, 1920

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Contents

ANNEX Report of Mr van Karnebeek in the name of the First Commission
123
Declaration of Doctor Zorn in the name of the German Government
170
Eighth Meeting July 27 1899
207
Ninth Meeting July 28 1899
215
Reading of a letter from Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands to His Holi
222
Final Act of the Conference
229
Convention for the adaptation to maritime warfare of the principles of the Geneva
247
Declaration relative to the prohibition of balls which expand in the human body
266
First Meeting May 18 1899
271
Distribution of the work
272
Third Meeting June 1 1899
276
Fourth Meeting June 23 1899
298
Address of Chevalier Descamps president of the committee
303
Address of Mirza Riza Khan ArfaudDovleh first delegate of Persia
305
Declaration of Mr Miyatovitch first delegate of Serbia
315
Address of Mr Bille first delegate of Denmark
321
Seventh Meeting July 25 1899
323
Declaration made by Captain Mahan in the name of the Government of the United
327
Declarations of the different delegations upon the proposal of Colonel Gilinsky
333
Question of cannon Vote on the Russian proposal
339
Third Meeting May 23 1899
343
Fourth Meeting June 7 1899
349
Sixth Meeting June 26 1899
358
Question of diving torpedo boats or submarines
367
Fifth Meeting June 16 1899
375
Examination of the report of the first subcommission Red Cross presented
383
Designation of the commissions and their bureaus
389
Proposals of Captain Mahan
391
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405
Fourth Meeting July 5 1899
408
ANNEX Table of the division of delegates into commissions
411
ANNEX Report of Mr Rolin
414
SECTION 3
419
B FIRST SUBCOMMISSION
444
Second group religious and sanitary personnel etc
449

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