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Advances in pay
    ARTICLE 60

    The Detaining Power shall grant all prisoners of war a monthly advance of pay, the amount of which shall be fixed by conversion, into the currency of the said Power, of the following amounts:

    Category I: Prisoners ranking below sergeants: eight Swiss francs.

    Category II: Sergeants and other non-commissioned officers, or prisoners of equivalent rank: twelve Swiss francs.

    Category III: Warrant officers and commissioned officers below the rank of major or prisoners of equivalent rank: fifty Swiss francs.

    Category IV: Majors, lieutenant-colonels, colonels or prisoners of equivalent rank: sixty Swiss francs.

    Category V: General officers or prisoners of war of equivalent rank: seventy-five Swiss francs.

    However, the Parties to the conflict concerned may by special agreement modify the amount of advances of pay due to prisoners of the preceding categories.
    Furthermore, if the amounts indicated in the first paragraph above would be unduly high compared with the pay of the Detaining Power's armed forces or would, for any reason, seriously embarrass the Detaining Power, then, pending the conclusion of a special agreement with the Power on which the prisoners depend to vary the amounts indicated above, the Detaining Power:

    (a) shall continue to credit the accounts of the prisoners with the amounts indicated in the first paragraph above;

    (b) may temporarily limit the amount made available from these advances of pay to prisoners of war for their own use, to sums which are reasonable, but which, for Category I, shall never be inferior to the amount that the Detaining Power gives to the members of its own armed forces.

    The reasons for any limitations will be given without delay to the Protecting Power.


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