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Danzig-Polish Post Office Dispute 1925

authorities and offices which are in Danzig outside the Port”, (168 (d).

These distinctions prove, whatever interpretation may be put upon Article 168 as a whole, that in the opinion held by the contracting Parties in 1921 the port of Danzig is regarded as a territorial area. lying within the territory of the Free City. This conclusion is confirmed by the wording of certain other provisions of the Warsaw Agreement, e. g. its Article 240.

The correspondence emanating from Poland and subsequent to 1921 shows that she has never abandoned this point of view.

As concerns the attitude of Danzig, the fact that, at a given moment, the Free City did not, like Poland, insist on the delimitation of the area of the port, finds its explanation in the interpretation given by General Haking, limiting the Polish postal service to operations in the interior of the building attributed to it and its use to Polish authorities and offices. The Court, however, has discarded this interpretation.

The limits of the port, considered as the area of the Polish postal service, have not been fixed, as has been explained above.

The Court is not asked to define and delimit the port of Danzig; but it considers it necessary to point out that, in its opinion, the practical application of its answers depends on the question of the limits of the port of Danzig within the meaning of the Treaty stipulations.

FOR THESE REASONS.

The Court is of opinion:
1. that there is not in force any decision of General Haking which decides in the manner stated in Paragraph 18 of the present High Commissioner’s decision of February 2^nd, 1925, or otherwise, the points at issue regarding the Polish postal service;

2. that within the port of Danzig:
(a) the Polish postal service entitled to set up letter-boxes and collect and deliver postal matter outside its premises in the Heveliusplatz; and is not restricted to operations which can be performed entirely within these premises;

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