Convention for the adaptation to maritime warfare of the

principles of the Geneva Convention of August 22, 1864.......

Declaration concerning launching of projectiles and explosives

from balloons.....

Declaration concerning asphyxiating gases..

Declaration concerning expanding bullets..

Table of signatures..

Reserves......

The Secretary of State to the Representatives of the United States

accredited to each of the Governments Signatories to the acts

of The Hague Conference, 1899 (October 21, 1904)...

The Secretary of State to the Representatives of the United States

accredited to each of the Governments Signatories to the acts

of The Hague Conference of 1899 (December 16, 1904)........

The Russian Ambassador to the Secretary of State, April 12, 1906....

The Russian Ambassador to the Secretary of State, April 12, 1906

(Supplemental note)........

142

152

154

156

160

164

168

172

175

178

181

198

.....

Instructions to the Delegates of the United States to the Second Inter-

national Peace Conference, 1907.....

Report of the Delegates of the United States to the Second Interna-

tional Peace Conference at The Hague....

Protocol dated June 14, 1907, permitting adherence of non-signatory

states to the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of Inter-

national Disputes....

252

Protocol of adherence of non-signatory states to the Convention for

the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes.

254

The Peace Conference of 1907 (Text)......

256

The Final Act.......

256

-Resolution concerning compulsory arbitration....

Resolution concerning limitation of military expenditure......

Recommendation concerning the judicial arbitration court...288-290

Recommendations concerning pacific commercial and industrial

relations.......

Recommendation concerning laws and customs of naval war..

Recommendation for the assembly of a Third Conference........

-Convention for the pacific settlement of international disputes. 308

Convention respecting the limitation of the employment of

force for the recovery of contract debts. ...

Convention relative to the opening of hostilities..

356

362

Convention respecting the laws and customs of war on land.... 368

Annex to convention: regulations respecting the laws and

customs of war on land......

Convention respecting the rights and duties of neutral powers

and persons in case of war on land....

400

Convention relative to the status of enemy merchant ships at

the outbreak of hostilities....

414

Convention relative to the conversion of merchant ships into

warships.....

422

Convention relative to the laying of automatic submarine con-

contact mines

428

Convention respecting bombardment by naval forces in time

of war......

436

Convention for the adaptation to naval war of the principles of

the Geneva Convention....

446

Convention relative to certain restrictions with regard to the

exercise of the right of capture in naval war ....

Convention relative to the creation of an international prize

court....

462

472

Convention concerning the rights and duties of neutral powers

in naval war

506

N. B. The French text of the conferences has been compared word by
word with the official copies in the Department of State, and is, it is believed,
a faithful reproduction. The English translations have likewise been
read with the official versions, and reproduce the official text of the Depart-
ment of State, except that a few obvious misprints, and an occasional mis-
translation, have been corrected.

THE HAGUE PEACE

CONFERENCES

1899 AND 1907

DOCUMENTS