2 4 24 as well as important. The Hague Convention stipulates cases where aircraft must abstain from bombing even where military objectives exist end where bombardment is justified even exposing civilians to danger (Art. 24. par.3and4). Without entering into the details of the merits (or demerits) of these provisions, it should be 18 briefly noted that, in case there should be an absolute ban on the air bombing even against legal targets if the locality which contains them is occupied by civilian population, the natural consequence would be an inducement to remove such military objectives liable to bombardment into the centre of civic quarters in order to cause them to share in the immunity, The Hague Draft Convention is in short of preventing such abuses. Apart from such intentional abuses, there are quite a number of military objectives actually situated within a po area. When they are of such important nature as to necessitate their destruction on the part of an invader, military necessity would naturally not deter the bomber, irrespective of whether or not the locality in question is "in the immediate neighbourhood of the operations of land forces." It is to be hoped that, when an international code on aerial warfare is compiled in the future, provisions will be made for the removal of all military objectives from civil centres, subject, of course, to certain exceptions. However, until that time comes, an indiscriminate bombardment, if any, of more or less degree on civie locality where objectives of highly important nature are intermingledly Stunted, mus "be considered apa 2771 [Zi
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