GENEVA CONVENTION

an agreement relating to treatment of sick and wounded in war, neutrality of ambulances and military hospitals together with their staffs, etc., was adopted at international conference at Geneva, 1864, which originated in a book entitled Un Souvenir de Solferino, by Henri Sympathy following publication, of this book was crystallized by M. Gustave Moynier, Convention was accepted by every civilized nation. There have sitice been supplementary conventions. The New Geneva Convention, 1906, was signed by thirty-five nations. The Hague Convention, 1907, adopted terms of Geneva Convention for maritime warfare. The distinctive flag adopted by the Convention shows a red cro on a white ground, and is supposed to confer immunity on the establishments over which it flies, though during the World War it was frequently violated by the Germans. Hospital ships are painted white with green strake, Ships s0 distinguished were sunk by Ger. su marines.