(a) Wounded, sick or shipwrecked persons who are disembarked by the warships of belligerents in a neutral port, with the consent of the local authorities, and in the absence of contrary arrangements between the neutrál and belligerent Powers, shall be so guarded by the neutral Power that they cannot take part again in war operations.
(b) The costs of hospital accommodation and internment shall be borne by the Power to which the wounded, sick and shipwrecked persons belong.
(c) If wounded, sick or shipwrecked persons are disembarked in a neutral port by neutral and private merchant ships, vessels, yachts or airships, which have assumed no obligation whatever towards one of the belligerent Powers, the said wounded, sick or shipwrecked persons shall be free.
(d) All warships arriving in a neutral port shall have the option, with the consent of the neutral Power, of disembarking wounded, sick or shipwrecked persons who may be on board.
Article 15.
The shipwrecked, wounded or sick, who are landed at a neutral port with the consent of the local authorities, must, in default of arrangement to the contrary between the neutral State and the belligerent States, be guarded by the neutral State so as to prevent them from again taking part in the operations of the war,
The expenses of tending them in hospita and interning them shal be borne by the State ti which the shipwrecked, wounded, or sick person belong.
Article 5.
After each engagement the two belligerents shall, so far as military interests permit, take all possible steps to search for and collect the shipwrecked, wounded, sick and dead. The bodies of the dead shall be protected against pillage and maltreatment, and their burial whether by land or sea or cremation shall be preceded by a careful and, if possible, medical examination of the corpses.
Article 6.
Note: The full Committee recommend
that this Article should follow the corresponding Article of the Red Cross Convention (see paragraphs 387 and 408 to 425 of the Main Report modified, as necessary, to meet conditions of naval warfare).
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Article 6.
After each engagement, belligerents shall take all possible measures to search for the shipwrecked, wounded and sick, and to protect them and the dead, against pillage and 111- treatment.
Article 7.
(a) Belligerents shall communicate to each other as soon as possible, according to the procedure prescribed in Article 77 of the 1929 Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war, the names of the wounded, sick and dead discovered or collected, together with any indications which may assist in their identification,
(b) They shall establish and transmit to each other by the same channel certificates of death or, in lieu thereof duly authenticated lists of the dead.
(c) They shall likewise collect and exchange by the same channel all articles of a personal nature and of intrinsic or
sentimental value found on the dead, especially one half of the ir identity discs, which should be of a standard pattern, the other half
body
Article 16.
(a) After each engag the two belligerents shi so far as military interests permit, take measures to search for shipwrecked, wounded an sick, and to ensure the as also the dead, protection against pillage and mattreatmen
(b) They shall see the burial, whether by land or sea, or cremati of the dead shall be preceded by a careful examination of the corpses.
(Cp. G.C. 1906, Art
Article 17.
(a) Each belligeren shall send, as early a possible, to the authorities of their country, navy or army, the military identific marks or tokens found the dead and a list of the names of the sick and wounded picked up by him.
(b) The belligerent shall keep each other informed as to internments and transfers as well as t the admissions into hospital and deaths which have occurred among the sick and wounded in their hands They shall collect all the objects of person use, valuables, letters, etc.. which
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Article 7. (Contd.)
(d) Bodies shall not be cremated except for imperative reasons of hygiene or for religious motives. Should cremation be carried out, the circumstances and motives which made it necessary shall be noted in detail on the death certificate of the person cremated.
(e). The belligerents shall ensure that burial on land or at sea, or cremation of the dead is preceded by a careful, and if possible, medical examination of the bodies, with a view to confirming death, establishing identity and enabling a report to be made.
(f) They shall further ensure that the dead are honourably interned, if possible according. to the rites of the religion to which they belonged, that their graves are respected, assembled and marked so that they may always be found. To this end, at the commencement of hostilities, they shall
officially organise a graves registration service, in order to allow eventual exhumations and to ensure the identification of bodies, whatever the
subsequent site of the grave. These stipulations also apply as far as possible to the ashes, which shall be kept by the graves registration service until the end of hostilities.
(g) As soon as circumstances permit, and at latest at the end of hostilities, they shall exchange a list of graves and of dead interned in their cemeteries and elsewhere.
(h) Should wounded, sick or dead be collected by neutrals, the latter shall assume as regards the belligerents, the obligations indicated in the preceding sections.
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Article 17.
(Contd.) captured ships, or which have been left by the wounded or sick who died
in hospital, in order to have them forwarded to the persons concerned by the authorities of their own country.
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rticle 7..
(a) The religious, medical and ospital staff of any captured ship
all be respected and protected; dey may continue to carry out their unctions as long as this is ecessary for the care of the sick nd wounded,
(b) on landing they shall be bject to the stipulations ovided for captured hospital aff and religious personnel by
e Geneva Conventions.X
Footnote making clear the name of the new Conventions.