I
Article 2 will, hereafter, read as follows:
Article 2
The stipulations of this Convention extend to letters, to simple postal cards and postal cards with paid reply, to printed matter of all kinds, commercial papers, and samples of merchandise, originating in one of the countries of the Union, and intended for another of those countries. They also apply, as far as regards conveyance within the Union, to the exchange by mail of the articles above mentioned between the countries of the Union and countries foreign to the Union, whenever that exchange makes use of the services of two of the contracting parties at least.
All the contracting countries are not obliged to issue postal cards with paid reply, but they assume the obligation to return reply-cards received from other countries in the Union.
II
Article 4 is modified as follows:
The following provision is substituted for paragraph 8:
2d. That wherever the rate of sea-transit is at present fixed at 5 francs per kilogramme of letters or postal cards, and at 50 centimes per kilogramme of other articles, these rates are maintained.
Paragraph 13 is modified as follows:
The general settlement of these expenses takes place on the basis of statements prepared every three years, during a period of 28 days to be determined on in the Regulations of execution[1] referred to in Article 14 hereafter.
The following provision is substituted for paragraph 14:
Correspondence of the Postal Administrations with each other, postal reply-cards returned to the country of origin, articles reforwarded or missent, undeliverable articles, return-receipts, post-office money orders, or advices of the issue of orders, and all other documents relative to the postal service, are exempt from all transit charges, whether territorial or maritime.
III
Article 5 is modified as follows:
The 3d paragraph will hereafter read as follows:
2d. For postal cards, 10 centimes for a simple card or for each of the two parts of a postal card with paid reply.
- ↑ See footnote 1, p. 97.
