presumed a prisoner of war and therefore protected by III GC, if he claims this status or if his troops claim this and there are no contrary evidence. If it's more beneficial for him to be considered a civilian, he shall be considered as such. To avoid gaps there is a negative rule everybody who is not a combatant is a civilian automatically. There are 3 exceptions mercenaries, spies, saboteurs. Mercenaries, spies and saboteurs, if captured, can be punished. Meanwhile, the person still has some legal guarantees, he or she has to be brought to the court, everything has to be official, you can't punish the person. A Mercenary is any person who: Art 47. (I AP) is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict; does in fact, take direct part in the hostilities; this makes the difference between mercenary v volunteers: is motivated to take part in the
with ammonia fumes, and it may have been this chemical that was used for the secret writing on the handkerchief of George Dasch, leader of the eight Nazi spies who landed by submarine on Long Island in 1942 to blow up American defense plants, railroad bridges, and canal locks. The red letters that appeared as if by magic when the pungent ammonia reached it spelled out the names and addresses of a mail drop in Lisbon and of two reliable sources for help in the United States. Each of the eight saboteurs had also been given a watertight tube containing four or five matchsticks tipped with a grayish substance that served as a ready- made pen-and-secret-ink. The trick in concocting a good secret ink is to find a substance that will react with the fewest possible chemicals— only one, if possible, thus resulting in what is called a highly "specific" ink. To test for secret inks, censorship stations "striped" letters. The
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