Report of the Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, to the Secretary of WarU.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 |
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Page 37 - In the event of one of the High Contracting Parties denouncing the present Convention, such denunciation shall not take effect until a year after the notification made in writing to the Netherlands Government, and forthwith communicated by it to all the other Contracting Powers. This denunciation shall only affect the notifying Power.
Page 37 - In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries have appended their signatures to the present Convention. Done at The Hague, the 18th October, 1907, in a single copy, which shall remain deposited in the archives of the Netherland Government, and [ duly certified copies of which shall be sent, through the diplomatic channel, to the Powers which have been invited to the Second Peace Conference.
Page 37 - The present Declaration shall be ratified as soon as possible. The ratifications shall be deposited in London. The first deposit of ratifications shall be recorded in a Protocol signed by the Representatives of the Powers taking part therein, and by His Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Page 37 - The contracting powers agree to prohibit, for a period extending to the close of the Third Peace Conference, the discharge of projectiles and explosives from balloons or by other new methods of a similar nature.
Page 37 - The present convention shall be ratified as soon as possible. The ratifications shall be deposited at The Hague. A...
Page 9 - Territories, and the District of Columbia, shall be the same as that which is now or may hereafter be prescribed for the regular army of the United States, subject in time of peace to such general exceptions as may be authorized by the Secretary of War.
Page 27 - Corps has never underrated the value of visual signaling. It has continued to supply organizations with standard visual signaling outfits, consisting of two flag kits and two field glasses. This outfit has been issued to 634 organizations, consisting of companies of the engineer, signal corps, cavalry, infantry, artillery, and machine gun platoons. the Signal Corps. The general properties of these field glasses, together with their low cost and serviceability, makes it a valuable part of the equipment...
Page 6 - ... from the grade in which the vacancy exists, or from the grade below: Provided, That no officer shall be so detailed except upon the recommendation of a board of ordnance officers, and after at least one examination, which shall be open to competition...
Page 37 - August, 1864, are allowed to adhere to the present convention. " For this purpose they must make their adhesion known to the Contracting Powers by means of a written notification addressed to the Netherlands Government, and by it communicated to all the other Contracting Powers.
Page 37 - October, 1907, in a single copy, which shall remain deposited in the archives of the Netherlands Government, and duly certified copies of which shall be sent through the diplomatic channel to the contractIng powers. The countries which did not sign the declaration forbidding the launching of projectiles or explosives from balloons were : Germany, Austria-Hungary, China, Denmark, Ecuador, Spain, France, Great Britain, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Roumania, Russia,...