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any other site within the territory of the Free City. The
question of a second building therefore falls under paragraph 2.
Danzig rejects the idea of a second building ; consequently the
question falls under paragraph 5. Poland can adduce very
cogent arguments in favour of the necessity for the two
buildings, which have already been allotted to her for the
postal service by the Allocation Commission of the Principal
Allied Powers. This fact will certainly influence the High Comniissioner\'s decision, should the question be referred to him.\"
While the request which ultimately gave rise to the decision of
May 25th, 1922, was still under consideration by the High Commissioner, a discussion began between the Parties regarding the
scope of Article 168 of the Warsaw Agreement. The discussion,
which was at first conducted verbally, was carried on by correspondence after May 23rd, the date on which the Polish postal
Administration sent to the Danzig Admikiistration a memorandum
on the points in dispute (this memorandum, however, has not been
communicated to the Court). From Danzig\'s reply, dated June and,
1922, it appears that the rights which Poland claimed under the
article in question were in a Iarge measure disputed by the Free
City.
On October 6th, the Polish Administration requested the Danzig
Administration to reconsider its opinion of June znd, in the light
of the decision of May 25th as interpreted on August 30th. On
November a~st, Danzig replied that the decision in question had -
not affected the situation and that negotiations might \' profitably
be continued on the basis of the notes of May 23rd and June and.
This view was not accepted by Poland. The Polish Administration, in a note dated December gth, 1922, argued that, in its opinion,
it was to be deduced from the hecision of May 25th as interpreted
on August 30th that the sphere of activity of the Polish service i
should be not merely the (cport\" in the sense in which the term is
used in the decision, but the whole city of Danzig regarded as an
administrative unit.
Such was the situation when the High Commissioner, on December 23rd, 1922, delivered a decision denying Poland the right to
have a letter-sorting office at the main railway station in Danzig.