Most of these States have already ratified, and Colombia, Costa-Rica, Cuba, Nicaragua, Salvador, Turkey, and Venezuela, which were not represented at the Congress, acceded later. There is no doubt that in time all the civilised Powers will become parties. [Footnote 246: See Macpherson, _loc. cit._ p. 254.] [Footnote 247: See Martens, _N.R.G._ XVIII. p. 607, and above, vol. I. § 560.] [Footnote 248: See Martens, _N.R.G._ XVIII. p. 61.] [Footnote 249: See Martens, _N.R.G._ 3rd. Ser. II. (1910), p. 620, and _Treaty Series_, 1907, No. 15.] The new Convention consists of thirty-three articles instead of the ten articles of the old Convention, and provides rules for the treatment of the wounded and the dead; further rules concerning military hospitals and mobile medical units; the personnel engaged in the interest of the wounded including army chaplains; the material belonging to mobile medical units, military hospitals, and voluntary aid societies; the convoys of evacuation; the distinctive emblem; the carrying out of the Convention; and the prevention of abuses and infractions. In the final protocol the Conference expresses the desire that, in order to arrive at a unanimous interpretation of the Convention, the parties should, so far as the cases and the circumstances permit, submit to Hague Court Arbitration any differences which _in time of peace_ might arise between them concerning the interpretation of the Convention, but Great Britain and Japan refused to become parties to this. [Sidenote: The Wounded and the Sick.]