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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Filing of the report of the Second Commission adaptation to maritime warfare of
467
Adoption of the 10 articles of the draft Convention
478
Third Meeting May 31 1899
480
Adoption of a vau to refer the study of the question of the rights and duties of neu
499
Address of Mr Martens
505
Declaration of the Count de Macedo first delegate of Portugal
511
Declaration of the Ottoman delegation
519
Oral report of Mr Renault in the name of the Drafting Committee of the Final Act 101
526
Tenth Meeting June 17 1899
534
Eleventh Meeting June 20 1899
545
First Meeting May 25 1899
581
Statement of Chevalier Descamps on the work of the committee of examination
586
Fifth Meeting July 5 1899
603
Sixth Meeting July 19 1899
626
Filing and adoption of the report of the Second Commission regulation of the laws
629
Address of Mr Veljkovitch
635
Seventh Meeting July 20 1899
647
Addresses of Baron dEstournelles Doctor Zorn and Messrs Veljkovitch and Odier
662
Eighth Meeting July 22 1899
669
Allocution of his Excellency Count Nigra
676
First Meeting May 23 1899
687
Fifth Meeting June 7 1899
705
Examination on first reading of the draft of the Permanent tribunal of arbitration
717
Eighth Meeting June 21 1899
725
Discussion of Articles 1 2 3 4
727
Motion of Messrs Bourgeois and dEstournelles de Constant_tending to facilitate
739
Thirteenth Meeting July 3 1899
759
Seventeenth Meeting July 19 1899
790
A Declaration of his Excellency Sir Julian Pauncefote
813
Adoption of the report of Chevalier Descamps see plenary meeting of the Confer
831
Amendment proposed by Mr Asser to Article 24
833
Subdivision of the subjects four groups Discussion of the first group concerning
871

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Page 263 - Until a more complete code of the laws of war has been issued, the High Contracting Parties deem it expedient to declare that, in cases not included in the Regulations adopted by them, the inhabitants and the belligerents remain under the protection and the rule of the principles of the law of nations, as they result from the usages established among civilized peoples, from the laws of humanity, and the dictates of the public conscience.
Page 604 - Independently of this recourse, the contracting powers deem it expedient and desirable that one or more powers, strangers to the dispute, should, on their own initiative and as far as circumstances may allow, offer their good offices or mediation to the states at variance. Powers strangers to the dispute have the right to offer good offices or mediation even during the course of hostilities. The exercise of this right can never be regarded by either of the parties in dispute as an unfriendly act.
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