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The Polish Government has stated without contradiction that
the Agreement came into force on January 11th) 1922, in virtue i
of an exchange of Notes dated December yst, 1921. Similarly, \'
in his report to the Council of the League of Nations dated
January rzth, 1922, the Japanese representative states that he
understands \"that the Agreement was ratified on that date\".
Pending the conclusion of the Convention and Agreement
referred to above, postal relations between Poland and the Free
City had been regulated by certain articles of a provisional arrangement dated April zznd, 1920.
As regaras Section III of the Warsaw Agreement, this was
prepared by means of negotiations between the Polish and Danzig \'
postal Administrations which appear to have extended from April
to August 1921.
On the 15th of the latter month the High Commissioner gave
his decision in a dispute between Poland and the Free City
regarding the ownership, etc., of the railways situated in the
territory of the latter. For the purposes of his decision the
High Commissioner accepted a red line traced by the Harbour
Board on a map of the City of Eanzig for the purpose of indicating
that aniongst the railways, sites and establisments marked within
this line were to be found those \"especially serving the port\".
their Agreement of September 23rd, 1921, the representatives
of the Parties expressly renounced their right to appeal against \"\"1
this decision, which has been a subject of discussion between the
interested Parties ; for Poland regards it as furnishing a geographical
definition-the only one in existence-of the area of the \"port
of Danzig\".
As has already been stated, Article 240 of the Warsaw Agreement
reserved a certain number of outstanding questions for decision
by the High Commissioner. In February 1922, Poland approached
the High Commissioner with a view to obtaining his decision upon
some of the points left outstanding with regard to the postal régime.
The Polish request refers to paragraphs (a) and (f) of Article 240
of the Warsaw Agreement for the purpose of defining the questions,
a settlement of which was desired. In its reply to this request,
the Free City alludes to paragraph (e) of this article in addition to
the paragraphs above mentioned. The three following questions
were therefore submitted to the High Commissioner and were argued
before him :