Royal Army Medical Corps training, 1908 / War Office.

Date:
1908
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Credit: Royal Army Medical Corps training, 1908 / War Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of peace or in time of war, Beebe to protect or to indicate the medical units and establishments and the personnel and material ¥ protected by the Convention. CuapreR VII.— Application and Carrying out of the Convention. Article 24. The provisions of the present Convention are only_ binding upon the Contracting Powers in-the case of war between two or more of them. These provisions shall cease to be binding from the moment when one of the gO Powers is not a party to the Convention. Article 25. The Commanders-in-chief of belligerent armies shall arrange the details for carrying out the preceding Articles, as well as for cases not prcvided for, in accordance with the instructions of their respective Governments and in ‘conformity with the general BEG ples of the present Convention. | aiele 26. The Signatory Governments will take the necessary measures to instruct. their troops, especially the personnel protected,.in the provisions of the present Convention, and to bring them to the notice of the civil population. Cuaprer VIIL.—Prevention of Abuses and Infractions. Article 27. The Signatory Governments, in countries the legislation of which is not at present adequate for the purpose, undertake to adopt or to propose to their legislative bodies such measures as may be necessary to prevent at all times the employment of the emblem or the name of Red Cross or Geneva Cross by private individuals or by Societies other than those which are entitled to do so under the present Convention and in particular for commercial purposes as a trade-mark or trading mark. The prohibition of ‘the employment of the emblem or the names in question shall come into operation from the date fixed by each legislature, and at the latest five years after the present _ Convention comes into force. From that date it shall no longer be lawful to adopt a trade-mark or trading mark contrary to this eee Article 28. | _ The Signatory | Governments also undertake . to adopt,.. oF te propose to their legislative bodies, should their military, law be insufficient for the purpose, the measures necessary for the repres-