| Item title: | Commentary on international law regarding chemical and bacterial warfare |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 5/18) View information about obtaining a copy of this document |
AJRP details | |
| AJRP module: | Australian War Memorial official records |
| AJRP series: | Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) publications |
| AJRP sub-series: | ATIS enemy publications |
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Location details | |
| Institution: | Australian War Memorial |
| Call number: | AWM55 5/18 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 5/- |
| Item: | EP-209 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 10 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Published, Official |
| Category: | Administrative document |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 6/10/1944 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | CHEMICAL WARFARE, LAW, FLAMETHROWERS, FIRST WORLD WAR, MILITARY REGULATIONS |
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| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Finschhafen [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), New Guinea, Huon Peninsula, Finschhafen Area] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) translation of a Japanese publication captured at Finschhafen on 20 October 1943 after the fall of Lae and the Japanese retreat across the Finisterre Ranges. This item contains extracts from a printed book (title page missing) on the laws of maritime, aerial, land and chemical warfare, dated May 1937. It also contains detail on the laws of neutrality and an article by the League of Nations on chemical warfare. The document gives a summary of the use of gas and flame throwers and contamination of wells during the First World War and the general provisions concerning chemical and bacterial warfare contained in treaties and drafts from the St Petersburg proclamation to the League of Nations Disarmament Conference. Commentary on the feasibility and desirability of international law prohibiting such warfare is given in notes. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:03:56 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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