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Prisoners who after succeeding in escaping are again taken prisoners are not liable to any punishment for their previous flight.
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Thomas Erskine Holland
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Holland clarifies that prisoners who successfully escape and are later recaptured should not be punished for their initial flight.
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I am of opinion that in war, where everything must be individual, the only articles which will prove efficacious are those which are addressed specifically to commanders.
Men of nations readily disunited and opposed--Germans and French, English and Russians, Spaniards and Dutchmen, Italians and Austrians--are, as a rule, all of one mind as to the principles of international law.
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Pacific reprisals should also, according to the tendency of modern opinion and practice, be so applied as not to interfere with the interests of third Powers and their subjects.
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