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.ANNEX II
Extract from the Hague ReP-ulations Annexed To
T e IVth aP"ue Convention of October 18 1 07 Respecti.11g tpe Laws and. Customs of War on
36 Stat. 2277, l.c. 2306-2309.
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Section III - 11ilitary Authority over the Territory of the Hostile Stat~.
Article /+2
Territory is considered occupied ·when it is actually placed. under the authority of the hostile army.
The occupation extends only to the territory where such author- ity has been established and can be exercised.
Article 4:i
The authority of the legitimate power havL"1g in fact passed into the ha"1ds of the occupant, the latter shall take all the
mea~~r~s in his power to restore and a"1sure, as far as possible, public order and safety, while respecting, unless absolutely pre- venteo., the laws in force in the cOlmtry.
Article 1.1~
A belligerent- is fo.:rbidden- to force the inhabita"llts of terri- tory occupied by it to furnish information about the army of the other belligerent, or about its means of defense.
Article 45,
It is forbidden to compel the inhabitants of occup~ed terri- tory to swear allegiance to the hostile Power.
Article 46
Fa~ily honour and rights, the lives of persons, and private property, as vrnll as religious convic (2306) tions a..--ici practice,
m1.1st be resnected.
Private property cannot be confiscated.
Article /+7 Pillage is formally forbidden.
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