Declaration (IV,3) concerning Expanding Bullets. The Hague, 29 July 1899.

Like the Declaration of Saint Petersburg of 1868, the Hague Declaration (IV,3) of 1899 gives expression, with regard to a particular bullet, to the customary rule prohibiting the use of weapons which inflict unnecessarily cruel wounds. The Declaration is aimed at the Dum-Dum bullet which is so called after the arsenal near Calcutta where the bullet was first made.