Article 5
The non-signatory Powers are permitted to adhere to the present Convention after October first 1905.
They shall, to that end, make their adhesion known to the Contracting Powers by means of a written notification addressed to the Government of the Netherlands and communicated by the latter to the other Contracting Powers.
Article 6
In the event of one of the High Contracting Powers denouncing the present Convention, such denunciation shall not take effect until one year after the notification made in writing to the Government of the Netherlands and immediately communicated by the latter to all the other Contracting Powers. This denunciation shall only affect the notifying Power.
In testimony whereof the Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention and affixed their seals thereto.
Done at The Hague the twenty-first of December one thousand nine hundred and four, in a single copy which shall remain filed in the archives of the Government of the Netherlands and copies of which, duly certified, shall be delivered through the diplomatic channel to the Contracting Powers.
- [For Germany:]
von Schlözer[seal]
- (Under reservation of the declaration made at the meeting of the Conference held December 21, 1904.)[1]
- [For Austria-Hungary:]
Okolicsanyi d'Okolicsna[seal] - [For Belgium:]
Guillaume[seal] - [For China:]
Hoo Wei-Teh[seal] - [For Korea:]
Young Chan Min[seal] - [For Denmark:]
W. Grevenkop Castenskiold[seal] - [For Spain:]
A. de Baguer[seal] - [For the United States:]
John W. Garrett[seal] - [For Mexico:]
J. Zenil[seal] - [For France:]
Monbel[seal] - [For Greece:]
D. G. Metaxas[seal] - [For Italy:]
Tugini[seal] - [For Japan:]
Nobukata Mitsuhashi[seal] - [For Luxemburg:]
Cte. de Villers[seal] - [For Montenegro:]
M. Tcharykow[seal] - [For the Netherlands:]
Bn. Melvil de Lynden[seal]
T. M. C. Asser[seal] - [For Peru:]
C. G. Candamo[seal] - [For Persia:]
M. Samad[seal] - [For Portugal:]
Conde de Selir[seal]
- ↑ The German declaration reads, in translation, as follows: "The Imperial Government reserves the right not to apply this Convention to States in the ports of which dues and taxes are imposed on German hospital ships for the benefit of any entity other than the State."
