(5) The giving over to pillage of a town or place, even when taken by assault, is forbidden (article 7). VIII INTERFERENCE WITH SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH CABLES Moore, VII. § 1176--Westlake, II. pp. 280-283--Liszt, § 41, III.--Bonfils, No. 1278--Pradier-Fodéré, VI. No. 2772--Fiore, III. No. 1387, and Code, Nos. 1650-1655--Perels, § 35, p. 185--Perdrix, _Les câbles sousmarines et leur protection internationale_ (1902)--Kraemer, _Die unterseeischen Telegraphenkabel in Kriegszeiten_ (1903)--Scholz, _Krieg und Seekabel_ (1904)--Zuculin, _I cavi sottomarini e il telegrafo senza fili nel diritto di guerra_ (1907)--Holland, in _Journal de Droit International Privé et de la Jurisprudence comparée_ (Clunet), XXV. (1898), pp. 648-652, and _War_, No. 114--Goffin, in _The Law Quarterly Review_, XV. (1899), pp. 145-154--Bar, in the _Archiv für Oeffentliches Recht_, XV. (1900), pp. 414-421--Rey, in _R.G._ VIII. (1901), pp. 681-762--Dupuis, in _R.G._ X. (1903), pp. 532-547--Nordon in _The Law Magazine and Review_, XXXII. (1907), pp. 166-188. See also the literature quoted above, vol. I., at the commencement of § 286. [Sidenote: Uncertainty of Rules concerning Interference with Submarine Telegraph Cables.] § 214. As the "International Convention[426] for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables" of 1884 expressly stipulates by article 15 that freedom of action is reserved to belligerents, the question is not settled how far belligerents are entitled to interfere with submarine telegraph cables. The only conventional rule concerning this question is article 54 of the Hague Regulations, inserted by the Second Peace Conference, which enacts that submarine cables connecting occupied enemy territory with a neutral territory shall not be seized or destroyed, and that, if a case of absolute necessity has compelled the occupant to seize or destroy such cable, it must be restored after the conclusion of peace and indemnities paid. There is no rule in existence which deals with other possible cases of seizure and destruction. [Footnote 426: See above, vol. I. §§ 286 and 287.] The Institute of International Law has studied the matter and adopted,[427] at its meeting at Brussels in 1902, the following five rules:-- (1) Le câble sousmarin reliant deux territoires neutres est inviolable. (2) Le câble reliant les territoires de deux belligérants ou deux parties du territoire d'un des belligérants peut être coupé partout, excepté dans la mer territoriale et dans les eaux neutralisées dépendant d'un territoire neutre.