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 62 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION-JULY 5, 194. 3335 ARTICLE 71. Exchange of closed mails with warships. 1. Closed mails may be exchanged between the post offices of any one of the contracting countries and the commanding officers of naval divisions or warships of the same country stationed abroad, or between the commanding officer of one of those naval divisions or warships and the commanding officer of another division or ship of the same country, through the intermediary of land or sea services of other countries. 2. Correspondence of all kinds comprised in such dispatches shall be exclusively addressed to or sent by the officers and crews of the ships of destination or origin of the mails; the rates and conditions of dispatch applicable to them are determined, according to its domestic regulations, by the Postal Administration of the country to which the ships belong. 3. Barring contrary agreement, the Administration of the country to which the warships belong is indebted to the intermediary Adminis- trations for the transit charges of the dispatches calculated in accord- ance with the provisions of Article 67. Ante,p.3333. Miscellaneous Provisions. ARTICLE 72. Failureto observefreedom of transit. When a country does not observe the provisions of Article 28 Ae, p. 331s. concerning freedom of transit, Administrations have the right to dis- continue postal service with that country. They must give advance notice of that measure by telegraph to the Administrations concerned. ARTICLE 73. Obligations relative to penal measures. The contracting countries undertake to adopt, or to propose to their respective legislative bodies, the necessary measures: (a) To punish the counterfeiting of postage stamps, even if with- Counterfeiting of drawn from circulation, international reply coupons, and postal identity cards; (b) To punish the use or placing in circulation of (1) counterfeit postage stamps (even if withdrawn from circu- lation) or used stamps, as well as counterfeit or used impressions of stamping machines or of printing presses; (2) counterfeit international reply coupons; (3) counterfeit postal identity cards; (c) To punish the fraudulent use of regular postal identity cards; Postal identity cards. (d) To prohibit and suppress all fraudulent operations of manu- Embossed or adhe- facture and placing in circulation of embossed or adhesive stamps in use in the postal service, which are counterfeited or

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