I. Throwing Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons.

Declaration. The contracting powers agree, for a period of five years, to forbid the throwing of projectiles and explosives from balloons or by other new methods of a similar nature.

II. Projectiles Which Diffuse Asphyxiating Gases.

Declaration. The contracting powers agree to forbid the employment of projectiles which have for their sole purpose the diffusion of asphyxiating or deleterious gases.

III. Use of Expanding Projectiles.

Declaration. The contracting powers agree to forbid the employment of bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets the jackets of which do not entirely cover the core or are provided with incisions.

Recommendations of the Peace Conference at The Hague, Adopted July 29, 1899.

The conference is of opinion that the limitation of the military burdens which now weigh so heavily upon the world is highly desirable for the enlargement of the moral and material well-being of humanity.

I. The conference, in view of the steps already taken by the Federal Government of Switzerland, with a view to the revision of the Geneva Convention, gives expression to the desire that it be succeeded by the meeting of a conference having for its object the revision of that convention.

II. The conference gives expression to the desire that the question of the rights and duties of neutrals be inscribed on the programme of the next conference.

III. The conference gives expression to the desire that the questions relating to marine artillery and small-arms, such as have been investigated by it, be studied by governments with a view to reach an understanding in respect to new types and calibers.

IV. The conference gives expression to the desire that governments, taking account of the propositions made to the conference, should study the possibility of an understanding in respect to the limitations of military and naval forces and war budgets.

V. The conference gives expression to the desire that the proposition having for its object the inviolability of private property in maritime warfare should be referred to a future conference for investigation.

VI. The conference gives expression to the desire that the proposition to regulate the question of the bombardment of ports, towns, villages, by naval forces should be referred to a future conference.