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Provisions of the GWS and GWS-Sea apply by analogy to wounded and sick, tomembers of the medical personnel, and to chaplains of the armed forces of the parties to theconflict, who are received or interned in neutral territory, as well as to deceased persons of aState that is a party to a conflict found there. 33115.16.3.2 Belligerent State Acting as the Protecting Power. Where diplomaticrelations exist between the parties to the conflict and the neutral or non-belligerent Powerconcerned, the parties to a conflict on whom these persons depend shall be allowed to performtowards them the functions of a Protecting Power as provided in the GPW, without prejudice tothe functions that these parties normally exercise in conformity with diplomatic and consularusage and treaties. 33215.16.3.3 Reimbursement of Expenses at the Conclusion of Peace. In the absenceof a special convention to the contrary, the neutral Power shall supply the interned with the food,clothing, and relief required by humanity. 333 At the conclusion of peace, the neutral Power’sexpenses incurred supporting the internment shall be made good. 334The provisions of the GPW regarding the costs of POW internment and the financialresources of POWs are not applicable to the situation of persons treated as POWs who have beeninterned by a neutral State. 335331 GWS art. 4 (“Neutral Powers shall apply by analogy the provisions of the present Convention to the woundedand sick, and to members of the medical personnel, and to chaplains of the armed forces of the Parties to theconflict, received or interned in their territory, as well as to dead persons found.”); GWS-SEA art. 5 (“NeutralPowers shall apply by analogy the provisions of the present Convention to the wounded, sick and shipwrecked, andto members of the medical personnel and to chaplains of the armed forces of the Parties to the conflict received orinterned in their territory, as well as to dead persons found.”).332 GPW art. 4B(2) (“Where such diplomatic relations exist, the Parties to a conflict on whom these persons dependshall be allowed to perform towards them the functions of a Protecting Power as provided in the present Convention,without prejudice to the functions which these Parties normally exercise in conformity with diplomatic and consularusage and treaties.”).333 HAGUE V art. 12 (“In the absence of a special convention to the contrary, the neutral Power shall supply theinterned with the food, clothing, and relief required by humanity. At the conclusion of peace the expenses caused bythe internment shall be made good.”).334 For example, A. PEARCE HIGGINS, THE HAGUE PEACE CONFERENCES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCESCONCERNING THE LAWS AND USAGES OF WAR: TEXTS OF CONVENTIONS WITH COMMENTARIES 293 footnote 2(1909) (“The most striking example of internment occurred in 1871 during the Franco-Prussian war when over80,000 French troops under General Clinchant entered Swiss territory and were interned for the remainder of thewar; France at the conclusion of the war paid to Switzerland some 11 million francs for their maintenance.”).335 See GPW art. 4B (“The following shall likewise be treated as prisoners of war under the present Convention: …(2) The persons belonging to one of the categories enumerated in the present Article, who have been received byneutral or non-belligerent Powers on their territory and whom these Powers are required to intern under internationallaw, without prejudice to any more favourable treatment which these Powers may choose to give and with theexception of Articles 8, 10, 15, 30, fifth paragraph, 58-67, 92, 126 and, where diplomatic relations exist between theParties to the conflict and the neutral or non-belligerent Power concerned, those Articles concerning the ProtectingPower.”) (emphasis added).987