MAKING PUBLIC THE CONVENTION RELATIVE TO THE TREATMENT OF THE PRISONERS OF WAR, 1929

WHEREAS, a Convention relative to the treatment
of Prisoners of War was signed at Geneva on July 27,1929, by the respective
plenipotentiaries of forty-seven countries;

WHEREAS, Article 98 of the Convention provides
that it shall be open for adherences given on behalf of any country in whose
name it was not signed;

WHEREAS, the Senate of the Congress of the
Philippines, by its Resolution No. 26 adopted on February 18, 1947, concurred
in the adhesion thereto of the Republic of the Philippines;

WHEREAS, the Republic of the Philippines has
formally adhered to the said Convention which became effective in respect of
the Philippines on October 1, 1947;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Ramon
Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do hereby proclaim and make public the
said Convention, a copy of which is hereto attached, to the end that the same
and every article and clause thereof may be fulfilled with good faith by the
Republic of the Philippines and the citizens thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused td be affixed the seal of the Republic of the Philippines.

Done in the City of Manila, this 19th day of
December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

MARIANO YENKO, JR.
Assistant Executive Secretary