GENEVA 



GENEVA CONVENTION 



instruments, and 

 jewelry, including 

 enamelling and 

 diamond cutting. 

 A ' Mentioned by 

 Caesar, Geneva 

 became important 

 under the Romans, 

 and the seat of a 

 bishop in the 5th 

 century or earlier. 

 It afterwards be- 

 longed to the 

 Burtrundians, the 



town in the country. The old part 

 of the city, which is also the com- 

 mercial centre, lies on the left 

 bank of the Rhone which divides 

 the city into two portions, con- 

 nected by several bridges. Since 

 the demolition of the ramparts in 

 1849-50, Geneva has rapidly spread, 

 wide streets and commodious quays 

 lining river and lake have been 

 constructed, and breakwaters built 

 to protect the port. 



Although a famous religious, 

 scisntific, and literary centre, 

 Geneva has few public buildings of 

 outstanding interest. The Protes- 

 tant cathedral, founded in the 10th 

 century and consecrated in the 

 llth, was rebuilt in the 12th and 

 13th centuries and disfigured in 

 the 18th by Renaissance additions. 

 More tasteful is the adjoining 

 Gothic chapel of the Maccabees, 

 built in 1406 and restored in 1874- 

 88. There are also Anglican and 

 American churches. The town hall 

 dates from the 16th century. The 

 academy, founded by Calvin in 

 1559, has a library containing 

 150,000 volumes and 1 ,500 manu- 

 scripts, but the university build- 

 ings are modern. 



There are a large, handsome 

 theatre, an athenaeum, and many 

 museums, including thfe Musee 

 Rath, with pictures and sculp- 

 tures; and the Musee Ariana. 

 There are also historical, natural 

 history, industrial, and archaeo- 

 logical museums. The educational 

 establishments and technical 

 schools are numerous, and there 

 is an observatory. The Victoria 

 Hall is a fine building. The city 

 has large manufactures of watches, 

 clocks, musical boxes, scientific 



classes. In 1798 the city became 

 the capital of the new French dept. 

 of Leman, and in 1815 joined the 

 Swiss Confederation. Geneva is 

 the seat of the League of Nations, 

 whose first assembly opened in the 

 Reformation Hall, Nov. 15, 1920. 

 See Geneva: its place in the world, 

 C. & J. Grande, 1920. Pop. 140,900. 



Geneva. City of New York, 

 U.S.A., in Ontario co. Situated at 

 the foot of Seneca Lake, 50 m. S.E. 

 of Rochester, it is served by the 

 New York Central and Hudson 

 River Rly. and the Seneca and 

 Cayuga Canal. Nursery gardening 

 is carried on, and motors, boilers, 

 wagons, optical requisites, cutlery, 

 and stoves are manufactured. 

 Settled in 1788 it received a charter 

 in 1898. Pop. 13,915. 



Geneva Convention. Inter- 

 national agreement signed at Ge- 

 neva in 1906, having for its object 

 the amelioration of the condition 

 of the sick and wounded in war. 

 Its main provisions are : Every 

 belligerent is obliged to care for all 

 sick and wounded soldiers who 

 may fall into its power without 

 regard for nationality, and any 

 general who is compelled by force 

 majeure to abandon the sick and 

 wounded of his army must leave 

 with them a portion of his field 

 ambulances in order to relieve the 



Franks, the Em- 

 pire, and to the 

 counts of Savoy. 

 The prince-bishops 

 of Geneva had a 

 continual struggle 

 to maintain then- 

 privileges ; this 

 culminated in 1535 

 in the epoch of 

 unrest caused by 

 the Reformation. 

 The bishop trans- 

 ferred his seat to 

 Gex, and in 1536 Calvin (q.v.) 

 came to the city, acquired almost 

 sovereign power, and ruled with a 

 rod of iron. In the 17th century 

 the dukes of Savoy attempted to 

 recover Geneva, but it was de- 

 fended by Protestant princes. In 

 the 18th century dissensions arose 

 between the privileged bourgeois 

 downtrodd* 



and the 



Geneva. View of the western end of the lake with the town of Geneva 



Geneva. 1. Mont Blanc bridge across the Rhone. 2. 



Cathedral church of S. Peter. 3. Place Neave, with the 



theatre on the right 



enemy to some extent of the burden 

 of nursing. This medical personnel 

 is to be relieved of its duties as 

 soon as possible by the enemy and 

 returned to its own army, and is not 

 to be treated like prisoners of war. 

 In no circumstances may field 

 ambulances i.e. doctors, nurses, 

 their assistants, transport drivers 

 and escorts be seized and held as 

 prisoners of war, but the enemy 

 may make use of their supplies for 

 the treatment of his own casualties. 

 The same rules apply to voluntary 

 aid societies and also to chaplains. 

 Belligerents must furnish the 

 enemy with a nominal roll of the 

 sick and wounded who become 

 their prisoners, also the identifica- 

 tion marks found on the dead, and 

 valuables, letters, etc., to which 

 relatives of the deceased may be 



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