Field service pocket book, 1914 / General Staff, War Office.

Date:
[1914]
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Credit: Field service pocket book, 1914 / General Staff, War Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following Powers have ratified or acceded to tliis Convention :— A ustria- H ungary. Belgium. Bolivia. China. Cuba. Denmark. France. Germany. Great Britain. Guatemala. Hayti. Japan. Lu.\emburg. Three declarations :— 1. Prohibits until the conclusion of the next Peace Conference the dis- charge of projectiles and e.xidosivcs from balloons or by other new methods of a similar nature. 2. llenounces the use of projeetiles, sole object of which is the diffusion of asphyxiating or harmful gases. 3. Renounces the use of bullets which expand or flatten easily in tiie human body. 1 has been ratified or acceded to by Belgium, Bolivia, China, Great Britain, Hayti. Luxemburg, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Portugal, Salvador and the United States. The representatives of France. Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and Spain did not sign the Declaration, nor have they since aceeded to it. 2 and 3 have been signed by practically all the Powers. Mexico. Netherlands. Nicaragua. Norway. Panama. Portugal. Rumania. / Russia. Salvador. Siam. Sweden. Switzerland. United States.