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Dr. Sache Stephanesco, Colonel of Reserve;

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His Excellency Privy Councilor de Martens, Permanent Member of the Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia;

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Mr. Milan St. Markovitch, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice,

Colonel Dr. Sondermayer, Chief of the Medical Division of the War Ministry;

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Prince Charoon, Chargé d'Affaires at Paris,

Mr. Corragioni d'Orelli, Counselor of Legation at Paris;

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M. Sörensen, Chief Surgeon of the Second Division of the Army;

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Mr. E. Odier, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Russia,

Colonel Mürset, Chief Surgeon of the Federal Army;

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Mr. Alexandre Herosa, Chargé d'Affaires at Paris,

Who, after having communicated to each other their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed on the following:

Officers, soldiers, and other persons officially attached to armies, who are sick or wounded, shall be respected and cared for, without distinction of nationality, by the belligerent in whose power they are.

A belligerent, however, when compelled to leave his wounded in the hands of his adversary, shall leave with them, so far as military conditions permit, a portion of the personnel and materiel of his sanitary service to assist in caring for them.

Subject to the care that must be taken of them under the preceding article, the sick and wounded of an army who fall into the power of the other belligerent become prisoners of war, and the general rules of international law in respect to prisoners become applicable to them.

The belligerents remain free, however, to mutually agree upon such clauses, by way of exception or favor, in relation to the wounded or sick as they may deem proper. They shall especially have authority to agree: