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 PAN AMERICAN MARITIME NEUTRALITY. FEB. 20, 1928. 1991 The ship shall not be rendered incaJ?able of navigation before the crew and passengers have been placed In safety. 2. Belligerent submarines are subject to tlie foregoing rules. If ~ IIJbma. the submarine cannot capture the ship while observing these rules, it shall not have the right to continue to attack or to destroy the ship. ARTICLE 2 Both the detention of the vessel and its crew for violation of neu- ~tenTarmstroBot (talk) JUDo trality shall be made in accordance with the procedure which best Yv sdts the state effecting it and at the expense of the transgressing ship. Said state, except in the case of grave fault on its part, is not responsible for damages which the vessel may suffer. Section II.-Duties and rights of belligerents. ARTICLE 3 Duties and rfghts of belligerents. Belligerent states are obligated to refrain from performing acts w=t.=~utral of war in neutral waters or other acts which ma; constitute on the part of the state that ~olerates them, a violation 0 neutrality. ARTICLE 4 Under the terIns of the preceding article, a belligp,rent state is ActsforbiddeD. forbidden: a) To make use of neutral waters as a base of naval oyerations Usingneutralwatera. against the enemy, or to renew or augment military supplies or the armament of its ships, or to complete the equipment of the latter; b) To install in neutral waters radio-tele~aph stations or any ~g-~ fD. other apparatus which may serve as a means of communication with its military forces, or to make use of installations of this kind it may have established before the war and which may not have been opened to the public. ARTICLE 5 Belligerent warships are forbidden to remain in the ports or ne~= stay in waters of a neutral state more than twenty-four hours. This provi- sion will be communicated to the ship as soon as it arrives in port or in the territorial waters, and if already: there at the time of the declaration of war, as soon as the neutral state becomes aware of this declaration. Vessels used exclusively for scientific, religious, or philanthropic Exemptions. purposes are exempted from the foregoing provisions. A ship may extend its stay in port more than twenty-four hours ~e,!;: e~l reason 01 in case of damage or bad conditions at sea, but must depart as soon ' as the cause of the delay has ceased. When, according to the domestic law of the neutral state, the ship Fueling. may not receive fUel until twenty-four hours after its arrival in port, the period of its stay may be extended an equal length of time. ARTICLE 6 The ship which does not conform to the foregoing rules may be tev:rls m;y ::: fD. interned by order of the neutral government. iZ:to r::i~ co orm- A ship shall be considered as interned from the moment it receives notic~ ~o that effect ~rom ~he local neutral authority,. even though a petItIon for reconsIderatIon of the order has been mterposed by the transgressing vessel, which shall remain under custody from the moment it receives the order.