This object would be exceeded by the employment of arms which would uselessly aggravate the sufferings of disabled men or render their death inevitable.

The employment of such arms would, therefore, be contrary to the laws of humanity." (St.
Petersburg Declaration, 1868.

Preamble.) "The right of belligerents to adopt means of injuring the enemy is not unlimited." (Hague _Reglement_, Art.

22.) "Besides the prohibitions provided by special conventions [the Declaration of St.Petersburg alone answers to this description] it is in particular prohibited (_e_) to employ arms, projectiles, or material of a nature to cause superfluous injury." (_Ib._ Art.

23.) The only special prohibition is that contained in the Declaration of St.
Petersburg, by which the contracting parties-- "Engage mutually to renounce, in case of war among themselves, the employment by their military or naval forces of any projectile of a weight below 400 grammes which is either explosive or charged with fulminating or inflammable substances." No one, so far as I am aware, has any wish to employ a bullet weighing less than 14 oz.