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Letters to "The Times" upon War and Neutrality (1881-1920) by Thomas Erskine Holland
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It is, however, now provided by The Hague Convention, No. ii.
of 1907, ratified by Great Britain on November 27, 1909, that
"the contracting Powers have agreed not to have recourse to
armed force for the recovery of contractual debts, claimed from
the Government of a country by the Government of another
country, as being due to its subjects. This stipulation shall
have no application when the debtor State declines, or leaves
unanswered, an offer of arbitration, or, having accepted it,
renders impossible the conclusion of the terms of reference
(_compromis_), or, after the arbitration, fails to comply with
the arbitral decision."




CHAPTER II

STEPS TOWARDS A WRITTEN LAW OF WAR


A large body of written International Law, with reference to
the conduct of warfare, has been, in the course of the last
half-century, and, more especially, in quite recent years,
called into existence by means of General Conventions, or
Declarations, of which mention must frequently be made in the
following pages. Such are:--

(i.) With reference to war, whether on land or at sea: the
Declaration of St. Petersburg, of 1868, as to explosive
bullets; the three Hague Declarations of 1899 (of which the
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