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FOURTH GENEVA CONVENTION OF 1949
Costs connected with the transport of such shipments, which are
not covered by the above paragraphs, shall be charged to the senders.
The High Contracting Parties shall endeavour to reduce, so far as
possible, the charges for telegrams sent by internees, or addressed to
them.
Special
means of
transport
ART. 111. — Should military operations prevent the Powers
concerned from fulfilling their obligation to ensure the conveyance of
the mail and relief shipments provided for in Articles 106,107, 108
and 113, the Protecting Powers concerned, the International
Committee of the Red Cross or any other organization duly approved
by the Parties to the conflict may undertake the conveyance of such
shipments by suitable means (rail, motor vehicles, vessels or aircraft,
etc.). For this purpose, the High Contracting Parties shall endeavour
to supply them with such transport, and to allow its circulation,
especially by granting the necessary safe-conducts.
Such transport may also be used to convey:
a) correspondence, lists and reports exchanged between the
Central Information Agency referred to in Article 140 and the
National Bureaux referred to in Article 136;
b) correspondence and reports relating to internees which the
Protecting Powers, the International Committee of the Red
Cross or any other organization assisting the internees exchange
either with their own delegates or with the Parties to the conflict.
These provisions in no way detract from the right of any Party to
the conflict to arrange other means of transport if it should so
prefer, nor preclude the granting of safe-conducts, under mutually
agreed conditions, to such means of transport.
The costs occasioned by the use of such means of transport shall
be borne, in proportion to the importance of the shipments, by the
Parties to the conflict whose nationals are benefited thereby.
Censorship
and
examination
ART. 112. — The censoring of correspondence addressed to
internees or despatched by them shall be done as quickly as possible.
The examination of consignments intended for internees shall
not be carried out under conditions that will expose the goods
contained in them to deterioration. It shall be done in the presence
of the addressee, or of a fellow-internee duly delegated by him. The
delivery to internees of individual or collective consignments shall
not be delayed under the pretext of difficulties of censorship.
Any prohibition of correspondence ordered by the Parties to the
conflict either for military or political reasons, shall be only
temporary and its duration shall be as short as possible.