Art. 10. The repatriation of these prisoners shall be effected in
the following manner: Each train in either direction shall contain
700 prisoners of war to be exchanged, man for man. Each train
coming from Germany, moreover, shall contain 100 French prisoners
of war designated in Article 1, and each train from France shall
contain 50 German prisoners of the same category, until the
total in this class on both sides is exhausted. The repatriation
shipments should contain a monthly average of 15 per cent. of
noncommissioned officers and 85 per cent. of privates.
Art. 11. At the beginning of each series of ten trains of private
soldiers there shall be formed on each side a convoy of 400
officers to be interned in Switzerland in accordance with Article
5. This convoy shall include, besides, 100 French officers
coming from Germany and 50 German officers coming from France
to be interned under Article 4, until the total on each side is
exhausted.
Art. 12. The first two trainloads of officers provided for in
Article 11 shall start from Lyons, the third from Constance, the
fourth from Lyons, and so on alternately. The first ten trains
of private soldiers arranged for under Article 10 shall start
from Constance; the ten trains of the second series shall go from
Lyons, and so on alternately.
Art. 13. Prisoners of war who do not yet come under the conditions
prescribed in Articles 1-5 shall be repatriated or interned in
Switzerland, as the case may be, as rapidly as the prescribed
conditions are fulfilled.
Art. 14. Officers in sound health who are interned in Switzerland
either under the present agreement or under the Berne agreement of
March 15, 1918, cannot be repatriated save in exceptional cases
and solely for serious illness or accident.
Art. 16. Article 19 of the Berne convention of March 15, 1918,
concerning the employment of repatriated soldiers shall be
applicable to prisoners benefiting from the present agreement.
Released Belgian prisoners can be employed in France under the
same conditions as repatriated French prisoners.
Art. 17. All the foregoing provisions are to apply to German
prisoners of war captured by Belgian troops and to Belgian
prisoners taken by German troops. The Belgian officers,
sub-officers, and soldiers shall be included in the repatriated
and interned French groups in the proportion of one Belgian for
ten Frenchmen, up to the exhaustion of the number of German war
prisoners who were captured by Belgian troops and who come under
the foregoing provisions.
Art. 18. In the repatriation and internment of prisoners under
Articles 1-5 only men in sound health are to be counted. Ill or
wounded prisoners will continue to be repatriated directly or
interned in Switzerland under the conditions laid down under
Articles 7-18 of the Berne agreement of March 15, 1918.
Art. 20. The provisions contained in Articles 1-19 of the present
convention shall cease to be in force on Aug. 1, 1919, if one of
the two Governments shall have given notice to that effect to the
Swiss Political Department before May 1, 1919.