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OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

A. PRISONERS OF WAR

I. INTERNMENT IN A NEUTRAL COUNTRY OR REPATRIATION OF PRISONERS
OF WAR

1. Valid Prisoners of War

Article 1

Valid prisoners of war who have been in captivity for one year, except as otherwise specifically provided in Articles 2, 3 and 16, shall be repatriated on the basis of head for head and rank for rank.

On the same basis prisoners of war who have been interned in a neutral country because of invalidism and have been declared cured and valid by a neutral medical commission, shall be repatriated when they shall have been in captivity and interned in a neutral country, both combined, for a period of one year.

In the execution of this Article the following shall be deemed to be of equal rank:

(a) all general, flag, field and commanding officers;

(b) all other officers;

(c) all noncommissioned and petty officers;

(d) all other enlisted or enrolled persons.

Article 2

The personnel of the German war vessels who were interned in the United States or its possessions prior to April 6, 1917, who are now held as prisoners of war, and who have no claim because of invalidism to repatriation, shall be exchanged, as soon as possible after this agreement goes into force, for an equal number of American prisoners of war, whether the latter have been in confinement for a year or not, on a basis of head for head and rank for rank. In the execution of this Article the following shall be deemed to be of equal rank: (a) all officers;

(b) all noncommissioned officers, petty officers and men.

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Article 3

Prisoners of war who have completed their fortieth (40th) year of age and who, although eligible for repatriation on the basis of rank for rank and head for head as established in Article 1, can not be repatriated because of the inequality in the numbers of such prisoners of war held by the two parties, shall be interned in a neutral country. They may be repatriated as soon as conditions as to equality in the number of prisoners of war held by the two parties shall render possible an exchange on the basis of Article 1.

2. Invalid Prisoners of War

Article 4

Prisoners of war shall be directly repatriated without regard to rank or number if they suffer from infirmities or diseases of the kinds specified in Annex 1, Sections I A, II A, and III.

Article 5

Prisoners of war shall be interned in a neutral country without regard to rank or number if they suffer from infirmities or diseases of the kinds specified in Annex 1, Sections I B, II B, and III.

Article 6

Prisoners of war who do not suffer from the disabilities or diseases of the kind specified in Annex 1 may be repatriated or interned in a neutral country when their condition of health in other respects appears to the Travelling Commissions or Commission of Control to render this necessary.

Article 7

The cause of the infirmity or disease shall not be taken into consideration in determining the eligibility for repatriation or internment of prisoners of war on the ground of invalidism except when self-inflicted injuries are involved.

Article 8

For the purpose of determining what prisoners of war are entitled to repatriation or to internment according to Articles 4, 5 and 6, on

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