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The Execution of Hostages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

Arthur K. Kuhn
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 1942 , pp. 271 - 274
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1942

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1 New York Times, Feb. 13, 1942, p. 7 Google ScholarPubMed; ibid., March 10, 1942, p. 4.

2 Ibid., Jan. 15, 1942, pp. 1–2, based upon United States War Department Communique'No. 59. So far as concerns prisoners of war, reports from Japan were to the effect that the Japanese Government intends to observe the articles of the Geneva Convention of 1929. New York Times, Feb. 22, 1942, sec. 1, p. 3. But later, gross violations of these rules by the Japanese at Hong Kong were made public by Secretary Anthony Eden. Ibid., March 11, 1942.Google ScholarPubMed

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10 Arts. 46, 52. The Hague Convention of 1899 and the Regulations annexed to the Convention of 1907 are identical so far as concerns the quotations here given.

11 Hall, ut cit, p. 418.

12 Hyde, ut cit., § 700.

13 New York Times, Jan. 14, 1942, p. 6 Google Scholar. The nine nations were Belgium, Czechoslovakia,Free France, Greece, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Yugoslavia. China senta message condemning Japanese conduct in parallel terms. China and Soviet Russia were represented by observers.

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