General Act of the Berlin Conference on West Africa, 26 February 1885
… placed under the free trade system, shall be involved in a war, then the High Signatory Parties to the present Act, and … other belligerent or belligerents, be placed during the war under the rule of neutrality, and considered as belonging … Commission may, if need be, have recourse to the war vessels of the Signatory Powers of this Act, and of those …