The Red Cross : in peace and war . A GROUP OF AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS MEMBER&. INTERNATIONA!. RED TREATY. 57 THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS TREATY. CONVKNTION OF GKNKVA. For Ihc Amelioration oj the Condttion of the Wounded in Arinits al the Field,August 22, 1864. The sovereigns of the followinj^ countries, to wit: Baden, Belgium, Denmark,Holland, Spain, Portugal, France, Prussia, Saxony, Wiirtemberg, and the FederalCouncil of Switzerland, animated by a common desire of mitigating, as far as intheir power, the evils inseparable from war, of suppressing needless severities andof ameliora
The Red Cross : in peace and war . A GROUP OF AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS MEMBER&. INTERNATIONA!. RED TREATY. 57 THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS TREATY. CONVKNTION OF GKNKVA. For Ihc Amelioration oj the Condttion of the Wounded in Arinits al the Field,August 22, 1864. The sovereigns of the followinj^ countries, to wit: Baden, Belgium, Denmark,Holland, Spain, Portugal, France, Prussia, Saxony, Wiirtemberg, and the FederalCouncil of Switzerland, animated by a common desire of mitigating, as far as intheir power, the evils inseparable from war, of suppressing needless severities andof ameliorating the condition of soldiers wounded on fields of battle, havingconcluded to determine a treaty for this purpose, these plenipotentiaries, after thedue interchange of their powers, found to be in good and proper form, havo agreedupon the following articles, to wit : Article i. Ambulances (field hospitals) and military hospitals shall beacknowledged to be neutral, and as such shall be protected and respected bybelligerents, so long as any sick or wounded may be therein. Such n
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