ART. 20. The personnel protected in virtue of the first paragraph of article 9, and articles 10 and 11, will wear attached to the left arm a brassard bearing a red cross on a white ground, which will be issued and stamped by competent military authority, and accompanied by a certificate of identity in the case of persons attached to the sanitary service of armies who do not have military uniform.

ART. 21. The distinctive flag of the convention can only be displayed over the sanitary formations and establishments which the convention provides shall be respected, and with the consent of the military authorities. It shall be accompanied by the national flag of the belligerent to whose service the formation or establishment is attached.

Sanitary formations which have fallen into the power of the enemy, however, shall fly no other flag than that of the Red Cross so long as they continue in that situation.

ART. 22. The sanitary formations of neutral countries which, under the conditions set forth in article 11, have been authorized to render their services, shall fly, with the flag of the convention, the national flag of the belligerent to which they are attached. The provisions of the second paragraph of the preceding articles are applicable to them.

ART. 23. The emblem of the red cross on a white ground and the words Red Cross or Geneva Cross may only be used, whether in time of peace or war, to protect or designate sanitary formations and establishments, the personnel and matériel protected by the convention.

CHAPTER VII

Application and execution of the convention

ART. 24. The provisions of the present convention are obligatory only on the contracting powers, in case of war between two or more of them. The said provisions shall cease to be obligatory if one of the belligerent powers should not be signatory to the convention.

ART. 25. It shall be the duty of the commanders-in-chief of the belligerent armies to provide for the details of execution of the foregoing articles, as well for unforseen cases, in accordance with the instructions of their respective governments, and conformably to the general principles of this convention.

ART. 26. The signatory governments shall take the necessary steps to acquaint their troops, and particularly the protected personnel, with the provisions of this convention and to make them known to the people at large.

CHAPTER VIII

Repressions of abuses and infractions

ART. 27. The signatory powers whose legislation may not now be adequate engage to take or recommend to their legislatures such measures as may be necessary to prevent the use, by private persons or by societies other than those upon which this convention confers the right thereto, of the emblem or name of the Red Cross or Geneva Cross, particularly for commercial purposes by means of trade-marks or commercial labels.

The prohibition of the use of the emblem or name in question shall take effect from the time set in each act of legislation, and at the latest five years after this convention goes into effect. After going into effect, it shall be unlawful to use a trade-mark or commercial label contrary to such prohibition.

ART. 28. In the event of their military penal laws being insufficient, the signatory governments also engage to take, or to recommend to their legislatures, the necessary measures to repress, in time of war, individual acts of robbery and ill treatment of the sick and wounded of the armies, as well as to punish, as usurpations of military insignia, the wrongful use of the flag and brassard of the Red Cross by military persons or private individuals not protected by the present convention. They will communicate to each other through the Swiss Federal Council the measures taken with a view to such repression, not later than five years from the ratification of the present convention.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

ART. 29. The present convention shall be ratified as soon as possible. The ratification will be deposited at Berne.

A record of the deposit of each act of ratification shall be prepared, of which a duly certified copy shall be sent, through diplomatic channels, to each of the contracting powers,

ART. 30. The present convention shall become operative, as to each power, six months after the date of deposit of its ratification.

ART. 31. The present convention, when duly ratified, shall supersede the Convention of August 22, 1864, in the relations between the contracting states.

The Convention of 1864 remains in force in the relations between the parties who signed it but who may not also ratify the present convention. ART. 32. The present convention may, until December 31, proximo,

be signed by the powers represented at the conference which opened at Geneva on June 11, 1906, as well as by the powers not represented at the conference who have signed the Convention of 1864.

Such of these powers as shall not have signed the present convention on or before December 31, 1906, will remain at liberty to accede to it after that date. They shall signify their adherence in a written notification addressed to the Swiss Federal Council, and communicated to all the contracting powers by the said Council,.

Other powers may request to adhere in the same manner, but their request shall only be effective if, within the period of one year from its notification to the Federal Council, such Council has not been advised of any opposition on the part of any of the contracting powers.

ART. 33. Each of the contracting parties shall have the right to denounce the present convention. This denunciation shall only become operative one year after a notification in writing shall have been made. to the Swiss Federal Council, which shall forthwith communicate such notification to all the other contracting parties.

This denunciation shall only become operative in respect to the power which has given it.

IN FAITH WHEREOF the plenipotentiaries have signed the present convention and affixed their seals thereto.

Done at Geneva, the sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and six, in a single copy, which shall remain in the archives of the Swiss Confederation and certified copies of which shall delivered be to the contracting parties through diplomatic channels.

(Here follow the signatures).

Final Protocol of the Conference for the Revision of the Geneva
Convention

The conference convened by the Swiss Federal Council with a view to the revision of the international Convention of August 22, 1864, for the amelioration of the condition of soldiers wounded in the field, met at Geneva on June 11, 1906. The Powers hereinafter enumerated took part in the conference, for which they had named the following delegates: (Names of countries and delegates.)

In a series of meetings held between the 11th of June and the 5th of July, 1906, the conference discussed and decided upon the text of a convention to bear date of July 6, 1906, for submission to the plenipotentiaries for their signatures.

In addition thereto, and in conformity with article 16 of the convention for the pacific settlement of international conflicts, of the 29th of July, 1899, which has recognized arbitration as the most efficacious, and at the same time the most equitable means of settling litigations, which have not been determined through the diplomatic channels, the Conference has expressed the following Hope:

The Conference expresses the hope that, to reach an interpretation and an application as exact as possible of the Convention of Geneva, the contracting Powers shall submit to the Permanent Court of The Hague, if the case or the circumstances lend themselves thereto, the differences which in time of peace may be raised between them in relation to the interpretation of the said Convention:

This Hope was voted for by the following states:

Germany, Argentine Republic, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Congo, Denmark, Spain (ad referendum), United States of America, United States of Brazil, France, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Luxemburg, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Norway, The Netherlands, Peru, Persia, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Servia, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland and Uruguay.

The wish was rejected by the following States:

Corea, Great Britain and Japan.

IN FAITH WHEREOF the delegates have signed the present protocol. Done at Geneva, the sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and six, in a single copy, which shall remain in the archives of the Swiss Confederation and certified copies of which shall be delivered to the contracting parties through diplomatic channels.

(Here follow the signatures.)

Macedonian Financial "Règlement." 1906.

"Règlement" for the Financial Service of the three Vilayets of Roumelia.

ARTICLE 1. A Financial Commission for a term of two years is constistituted for the three Vilayets of Salonica, Kossovo, and Monastir. This Commission will exercise its functions in the name of the Imperial Ottoman Government.

It is composed of the Inspector-General of the Vilayets of Roumelia, the Civil Agents of Austria-Hungary and Russia, and of five Advisers

nominated for this purpose by the Imperial Ottoman Government and the Governments of Germany, France, Great Britain, and Italy. Its mission is:

1. To insure the application of the Regulation agreed upon beween the Imperial Ottoman Ministry of Finance and the Imperial Ottoman Bank, dated the 22nd February, 1320 (the 7th March, 1905), as defined by the present Regulation;

2. To supervise the regular collection of taxes, including the tithe;

3. To examine the Budgets of the three vilayets, which must be communicated to it before becoming final, and to supervise their strict performance after they have received the Imperial sanction;

4. To supervise the execution of the financial reforms.

ART. 2. The Commission will have its seat at Salonica, where its offices will be established. Its meetings, however, will always be held in in the town in which the President resides.

ART. 3. The Commission will be presided over by the InspectorGeneral and, in the event of his absence or inability to attend, by a high Ottoman official named by him. It will discuss at its sittings all matters within its province (Article 1.)

ART. 4. A member of the Commission will assist the President in the capacity of "adjoint." These duties will be performed in turn for a period of three months by the Civil Agents of Austria-Hungary and Russia and by the German, French, British, and Italian advisers, in the alphabetical order of the Powers.

This "adjoint" is charged with:

1. The regulation, in conjunction with the President, of minor matters not requiring the decision of the Assembled Commission;

2. The internal service of the Commission; and

3. The relations between the Commission and the Imperial Ottoman Bank.

He will accompany the President on his journeys. When he is obliged to absent himself from Salonica, his duties, as specified under headings 2 and 3, will devolve upon the member who comes next to him in alphabetical order.

ART. 5. The Commission will sit as a rule once a week. It will be summoned in extraordinary session whenever the President considers it necessary, or when two members of the Commission wish it.

Any member may enter on the order of the day matters which he wishes to submit to the deliberations of the Commission.