 | United States. War Department. General Staff - 1905 - 240 pages
...modern law of war to exist. 682. Military necessity does not admit of cruelty—that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge,...maiming or wounding except in fight, nor of torture tp extort confessions. It does not admit of the use of poison in any way, nor of the wanton devastation... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Labor - 1905 - 396 pages
...persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable. Military necessity does not admit of cruelty. It does not admit of the use of poison in any way. It admits of deception, but disclaims acts of perfidy. It is not carried on by arms alone. It is a... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - 1906 - 1132 pages
...another and to God. " 16. Military necessity does not admit of cruelty — that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge,...acts of perfidy; and, in general, military necessity docs not include any act of hostility which makes the return to peace unnecessarily difficult. " 17.... | |
 | 1906 - 1132 pages
...another and to God. " 16. Military necessity does not admit of cruelty — that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge,...devastation of a district. It admits of deception, but disclajms acts of perfidy ; and, in general, military necessity does not include any act of hostility... | |
 | Charles Richmond Henderson - 1909 - 356 pages
...to one another and to God. Military necessity does not admit of cruelty — that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge...extort confessions. It does not admit of the use of poisons in any way, nor of the wanton devastation of a district. It admits of deception, but disdains... | |
 | Charles Richmond Henderson - 1909 - 356 pages
...admit of cruelty—that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge—nor of maiming or wounding except in fight, nor of torture...extort confessions. It does not admit of the use of poisons in any way, nor of the wanton devastation of a district. It admits of deception, but disdains... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - 1909 - 660 pages
...persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable. Military necessity does not admit of cruelty. It does not admit of the use of poison in any way. It admits of deception, but disclaims acts of perfidy. It is not carried on by arms alone. . . . Every... | |
 | Charles Leonard-Stuart - 1912 - 644 pages
...admit of cruelty — that is, the infliction of suffering for the s:ike of suffering or for revenge, or of maiming or wounding, except in fight, nor of torture to extort confessions'. It admits of deception, but disclaims acts of perfidy. It is lawful to starve the hostile belligerents,... | |
 | Karl Strupp - 1914 - 304 pages
...one another, and to God. 16. Military necessity does not admit of cruelty, that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge,...perfidy ; and, in general, military necessity does not inclnde any act of hostility which makes the return to peace unnecessarily difficult. 170 17. War is... | |
 | United States. War Department. General Staff - 1914 - 244 pages
...destruction of one or both of the belligerents.1 1G. O. 100, 1863, art 16. "It (military necessity) admits of deception, but disclaims acts of perfidy ; and, in general, military necessity doea not include any act of hostility which makes return to peace unnecessarily difficult." Land Warfare,... | |
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Military necessity does not admit of cruelty, that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, nor of maiming or wounding except in fight, nor of torture to extort confessions. 
