1. Correspondence relating to the postal service exchanged between Postal
Administrations, between those Administrations and the International Bureau,
between post offices of countries of the Union, and between those
offices and the Administrations, as well as that for which the franking
privilege is expressly provided by the provisions of the Convention, the
Agreements and their Regulations, is exempt from all postal charges.
2. Except when they bear C. O. D. charges, mail articles addressed to
prisoners of war or mailed by them are likewise exempt from all postal
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charges, not only in the countries of origin and destination but also in the
intermediary countries.
3. The same is true of correspondence concerning prisoners of war, ~ent
or received either directly or as intermediary by the Central Information
Office for Prisoners of War, as provided for in Article 79 of the International
Convention of Geneva of July 27, 1929,8 or by information offices which may
be established for the benefit of such persons in belligerent countries or in
neutral countries which have received belligerents in their territory.
4. Belligerents received and interned in a neutral country, as well as civilians
of enemy nationality detained in civilian camps or prisons, are assimilated
to prisoners of war properly so called, insofar as the application of the provisions
mentioned above is concern