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Walks.

XVI. Officer prisoners of war shall be permitted to take collective walks outside the camps on parole, accompanied only by an officer.

Prisoners of war who may escape in violation of their parole shall be delivered up by their Government.

Religious Services.

XVII. Ecclesiastics prisoners of war shall always be charged with the performance of religious services and permitted to look after the moral welfare of the prisoners of war. The civil ecclesiastics shall perform the same duties in the camps of interned civilians. The competent military authorities shall always take into consideration the requirements of the prisoners' camps in the matter of religious services. They shall see that the distribution of ecclesiastics in the different camps takes place with due regard to the spiritual needs of the prisoners, in camps of soldiers and of interned civilians as well as in officers' camps.

Punishments for Attempts to escape committed by Prisoners of War.

XVIII. (a.) Simple attempts to escape-that is to say, such as are not accompanied by any crime-shall be punished by military confinement not exceeding fourteen days.

(b.) Where thefts, damage, or other crimes against property or breaches of regulations forbidding the possession of certain articles have been committed in the course of or incidentally to escapes, such escapes shall be punished by military confinement not exceeding two months.

Trials.

XIX. When a prisoner is accused of any crime his case shall be investigated, and, if necessary, tried with the least possible delay.

Promotions of Prisoners of War.

XX. All promotions of officer prisoners of war to a higher rank shall be recognised by the captor State.

Promotions of non-commissioned officers and men prisoners of war to officer rank shall be recognised on condition of having taken place previously to their capture, even if they had not been notified to the persons interested at the time of their capture.

Reprisals.

XXI. Measures of reprisal against prisoners shall only be taken eight weeks after having been notified by the diplomatic channel. This period shall be reckoned from the date on which the communication announcing the contemplated reprisals shall have been received by the Government interested.

Part III.-INFORMATION.

Lists of Prisoners.

XXII.-(a.) The two Governments shall endeavour to prepare and forward with the least possible delay lists of the prisoners newly captured or interned, and to notify one another of the transfers and deaths which have taken place in the camps.

(b.) In each camp special lists of prisoners shall be preThese lists pared by the Help Committees of the camps. shall be drawn up in Turkish for Ottoman prisoners and in English for British prisoners, and shall be transmitted in original to the Governments interested.

Death Certificates.

XXIII. The death certificates of prisoners shall be drawn up and forwarded as expeditiously as possible.

Enquiry Forms.

XXIV. In each country there shall be introduced enquiry forms relative to prisoners, to missing and to sick persons, drawn up in English and in Turkish as regards the printed part, which shall be forwarded to the Red Crescent at Constantinople, on the one part, and to the Prisoners of War Information Bureau in London, on the other part, and which shall be filled up and returned to the senders as expeditiously as possible.

Annex.
DECLARATIONS.

Treatment of Prisoners of War in general.

I. The British delegation declares that the British Government feels quite as much concerned for the treatment of its soldiers, to whatever part of the Empire they may belong, as for that of its officers.

The Ottoman delegation declares in its turn that the Ottoman Government feels quite as much concerned for the treatment of its soldiers, to whatever part of the Empire they may belong, as for that of its officers.

Fuel.

II. The British delegation declares that officer prisoners of war in the hands of the British Government receive and will receive without charge the fuel which they require.

The Ottoman delegation declares that the Ottoman Government does and will do its best to furnish fuel at the

lowest prices to officer prisoners of war, as it does to

Ottoman officers.

Correspondence of Prisoners.

III. The Ottoman delegation, in view of the information. furnished by the International Committee of the Red Cross, declares that the Ottoman Government will make the necessary representations with a view to the censorship of the letters to and from Turkey, which takes place at Vienna and sometimes at Sofia, being abolished, or, if that is impossible, carried out as rapidly as possible.

Treatment of Turkish Women and Children at Cairo.

IV. The Ottoman delegation having asked that the Turkish women and children interned at Cairo should be free to leave the citadel, the British delegation, after pointing out that these persons were found without resources and were afforded hospitality as a measure of humanity rather than interned, declares that it is prepared to cause the consideration by the British Government of the possibility of giving them greater liberty pending their repatriation.

Fencing of Officers' Camps.

V. The British delegation declares that it will request the British Government to consider whether it would not be possible to replace the barbed wire surrounding the camps of Ottoman officer prisoners of war by ordinary wire or by some other form of fencing.

Treatment of Civilians.

VI. (a.) The Ottoman delegation declares that if, within a period of two months from the ratification of the present agreement by the two Governments, the British Government does not take the necessary steps to abolish internment camps for civilians, the Ottoman Government will be obliged to proceed to measures of reprisal.

(b.) The Ottoman delegation having proposed that Ottoman and British subjects between 17 and 50 years of age who may be interned in future as civilian prisoners should be repatriated instead of being interned, the British delegation declares that it will consult the British Government on the subject.

(c.) Respecting the labour of British civilians who may be interned in Turkey, the Ottoman delegation declares that they will be subject to the same régime as interned Ottoman civilians in Great Britain.

Repatriation of French and Ottoman Civilians.

VII. The British delegation states that it is authorised by the French Government to invite on the part of the Ottoman delegation a declaration relative to the wish which may be expressed by the French Government that French and Ottoman civilians at present interned or at liberty in Turkey and in France should enjoy the benefits of the present agreement between the British and Turkish Governments as regards the repatriation of civilians.

The Ottoman delegation declares that it will bring this communication on the part of the British delegation to the knowledge of the Ottoman Government.

AGREEMENT between Great Britain and the United States of America further extending the Duration of the Arbitration Convention signed at Washington on April 4, 1908.-Washington, June 3, 1918.*

[Ratifications exchanged at Washington,
September 24, 1918.]

THE President of the United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, being desirous of extending for another five years the period during which the Arbitration Convention concluded between them on the 4th April, 1908, extended by the Agreement concluded between the two Governments on the 31st May, 1913, shall remain in force, have authorised the undersigned, to wit: Robert Lansing, Secretary of State of the United States and The Earl of Reading, His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on Special Mission to the United States, to conclude the following articles :

ART. I. The Convention of Arbitration of the 4th April, 1908, between the Government of the United States of

* "United States Treaty Series," No. 635.

+ Vol. CI, page 208.

Vol. CVI, page 820.

America and the Government of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, the duration of which by Article IV thereof was fixed at a period of five years from the date of the exchange of ratifications of the said Convention on the 4th June, 1908, which period by the Agreement of the 31st May, 1913, between the two Governments, was extended for five years from the 4th June, 1913, is hereby extended and continued in force for the further period of five years from the 4th June, 1918.

II. The present Agreement shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Britannic Majesty, and it shall become effective upon the date of the exchange of ratifications which shall take place at Washington as soon as possible.

Done in duplicate, this 3rd day of June, 1918.

(L.S.) ROBERT LANSING. (L.S.) READING.

CONVENTION between Great Britain and the United States of America respecting the Liability to Military Service of British Subjects in the United States and of United States Citizens in Great Britain.Washington, June 3, 1918.*

[Ratifications exchanged at London, July 30, 1918.]

His Majesty the King of the United Kindom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and the President of the United States of America, being convinced that for the better prosecution of the present war it is desirable that British subjects in the United States and citizens of the United States in Great Britain shall either return to their own country to perform military service in its army or shall serve in the army of the country in which they remain, have resolved to enter into a Convention to that end, and have accordingly appointed as their Plenipotentiaries :

His Britannic Majesty: The Earl of Reading, Lord Chief Justice of England, High Commissioner and Ambassador

* Parliamentary Paper, "Miscellaneous, No. 14 (1918).”

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